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USA Today Allows False Campus Sexual Assault Statistic To Go Unchallenged

Ashe Schow

No matter how many times the claim that an exorbitant number of college women will be sexually assaulted during their time as an undergraduate is debunked, it still gets presented as if it were a fact of life.

The most recent example comes from USA Today, which is attempting to explain the issue of campus sexual assault in a series of videos, but right off the bat, the media outlet is making a bad faith argument. In a tweet sent Monday night, USA Today teased the series by comparing rates of breast cancer to false and misleading statistics about campus sexual assault.

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