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View More NewsIn 2023, Defendant WP Company LLC (the “Post”) published an article titled “Trust linked to porn-friendly bank could gain a stake in Trump’s Truth Social,” which reported on the finances of Trump Media Technology Group (“TMTG”). After almost three years of litigation, the Post has now admitted that portions of the article included false information. Specifically, the Post admits its story incorrectly stated that TMTG paid a $240,000 referral fee in connection with an $8 million loan from an entity known as ES Family Trust. The Post now admits that no such payment was made and recently chose to publish…
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Editor’s note: the text that follows has been adapted, with permission of the authors, from “State of Scholarship in the Humanities and the Humanistic Social Sciences,” a report submitted on 5 April, 2026 to Daniel Diermeier, Chancellor of Vanderbilt University, and Andrew D. Martin, Chancellor of Washington University; and addressed to all “university chancellors and presidents who are concerned about the state of academic scholarship in the humanities.” The full list of authors appears in the credit information below.The idea that there is something amiss in the humanities and the social sciences, and that the problem has something to do…
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