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The mad, mad saga over a controversial 2020 article takes another turn.
In this photo illustration a young man types on an illuminated computer keyboard typically favored by computer coders on January 25, 2021 in Berlin, Germany. | Elise Amendola/AP Photo
By CRAIG HOWIE and JOSH GERSTEIN
01/08/2022 01:08 PM EST
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A writer whose article was controversially retracted by The Atlantic magazine is suing the publication.
The suit, filed by Ruth Shalit Barrett late Friday in U.S. District court in Washington, D.C., alleges The Atlantic defamed her in its retraction of an article she wrote on wealthy parents in Connecticut pushing their children into niche sports in a bid to win entrance to Ivy League schools.
In an editor’s note originally appended to the story, published in October 2020, the magazine stated that Barrett had “misled our fact-checkers, lied to our editors, and is accused of inducing at least one source to lie to our fact-checking department.”
