New York Times Accused of Journalistic Malfeasance in Platner Abuse Reporting

What was said

"I gave them the contact information for 5 friends. They called the 2 who I clarified would not know about the abuse but would be able to affirm our relationship timeline. They simply did not call the other 3. I gave them screenshots of messages between these roommates and I discussing it. I gave them the names of other men I dated who remembered him following us around. But tell me again how they could not corroborate."

Lindsay Fifield, another woman who accused Platner of abuse, alleges the New York Times deliberately avoided corroborating her story despite providing contact information for five friends, roommate witnesses, landlord emails, and diary entries. The Times reportedly used Fifield's story to pressure another accuser, Jenny Raskott, to go on record, then dismissed Fifield's account as uncorroborated when Raskott initially declined. The paper described multiple women's accounts of abuse merely as 'unsettling and emotionally wrenching' relationships without mentioning alleged sexual assault.