Meant to share this yesterday but this Melissa Gira Grant story about figuring out that the gay wedding website case was built on totally faked facts is amazing.
I love and miss journalism for this: picking up the phone and calling the person no one else ever bothered to or knew to.
https://newrepublic.com/article/173987/mysterious-case-fake-gay-marriage-website-real-straight-man-supreme-court
#journalism
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2023-06-30 18:45:34
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