The story is one of preemptive censorship and a rumor mill mobilized to attack academics, especially since the journalist does no work to substantiate the allegation and seemingly shrugs at the accuser refusing to disclose its own employees who made the charge. Their hiding behind AI is just icing.
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This is absolutely unhinged, pro-censorship framing. An anonymous site makes an unsupported allegation that gets a scholar censored and sanctioned before there is even an investigation, and the reporter evinces no curiosity about the identity of the accusers or why Yale folded immediately. Amazing.
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- speaking on a webinar where another guy also spoke /2
- being scheduled to speak at a conference where its unclear she even showed up;
- doing an interview on PressTV
- getting quoted in a documentary she didn't produce
- tweeting a tribute to Hasan Nasrallah /3
- taking her X account private
- appearing in a zoom call with an Iranian government agent.
It's pretty thin gruel for a charge of terrorism and suspension from campus, but again: I get why the NYT did not want to detail this. It looks really bad. /4