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"HOW THE MEDIA FUELED YET ANOTHER RACISM HOAX, AND RUINED THE LIFE OF AN AUTISTIC WOMAN IN THE PROCESS"

Excerpt:

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Even after revealing she has autism to the reporter at The Post, Torres was devastated to learn that the article still maintained that it was a black-white issue. It would seem that nothing Torres could say would stop the domino effect of the fake news.

Months later, the internet still knows Torres as “Doorway Debbie.” She has made numerous attempts at suicide. “I felt that nobody was going to do anything, no one was going to face any repercussions unless I were to kill myself,” Torres said. “I tried to kill myself, I cut myself. I just felt so done and I felt ‘this is never going to get better,’”

Emily Crane’s story covering Obregon’s and Torres’ interaction at the Daily Mail was deleted without any sort of retraction. Others still have not corrected their stories (Newsweek, Ebony Magazine, etc.). Others made changes to the headline from “white woman calls the cops on black woman” to “woman calls cops on woman” without explaining on the bottom of the article that the original post was corrected, as journalistic ethics require.

I asked Lapin if she would be willing to help fix the damage she took part in.

“I really can’t comment on that,” she said. “I’ve got to go,” she said before hanging up the phone.

Shortly after I spoke to Lapin, the racial language was removed from the story completely. It said “updated” without any additional detail as to why the language was changed. I asked Lapin why she had not included corrections to the bottom of her story. She said, “It says ‘updated’ on the top of the article.”

What about detailing what the mistakes were, especially given the harmful nature of defamation?

“That’s not how we do things here … We asked her for her side of the story. There’s nothing else we can do,” Lapin said.

Read the entire article here: https://dailycaller.com/2019/01/03/doorway-debbie-narrative-autism/?utm_medium=push&utm_source=daily_caller&utm_campaign=push

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