this post was submitted on 03 Aug 2026
277 points (98.9% liked)
Not The Onion
22130 readers
1131 users here now
Welcome
We're not The Onion! Not affiliated with them in any way! Not operated by them in any way! All the news here is real!
The Rules
Posts must be:
- Links to news stories from...
- ...credible sources, with...
- ...their original headlines, that...
- ...would make people who see the headline think, “That has got to be a story from The Onion, America’s Finest News Source.”
Please also avoid duplicates.
Comments and post content must abide by the server rules for Lemmy.world and generally abstain from trollish, bigoted, ableist, or otherwise disruptive behavior that makes this community less fun for everyone.
And that’s basically it!
founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
If she knew she scanned the items, there was no THC in the vapes, and the pills weren't hers, why did she resign? And then why didn't the university take her back after the truth was revealed? And why wouldn't they have forcefully defended her by showing the evidence that she committed no crime? We better find a way to push back against the power of the Internet to create these conditions.
because PR.
your employer isn't interested in truth in justice, they are interested in avoiding bad PR.
the same reason that anyone who gets a false charges basically has their life ruined, nobody wants to associate with the association of crime, even if you are proven innocent, the fact you were charged at all makes you guilty in the court of public opinion. and pushing back, just makes you look more guilty.
Basically it is almost always easier to side with the abuser than to side with the abused and the victim.