David Rubenstein

NMLS#653806 David.Rubenstein@unionbank

[Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok]

Elizabeth West, a man pretending to be a woman was arrested by the FBI for posting pictures of guns with threatening messages about ‘killing transphobes.’

Trans violence strikes again. LGBTQ extremism is a serious threat.

[Matt Schlapp @mschlapp]

Why is the WH Counsel meeting with GA prosecutors trying to disqualify Donald Trump and keep him tied up in Court?

WH Counsel and the DOJ are acting more like personal and campaign lawyers for Joe Biden while using taxpayer money.

It’s time for Jim Jordan and James Comer to haul them all in.

[The Federalist @FDRLST]

Report: White House Lied About Joe Biden Meeting, Hosting Hunter’s Art Dealer
https://t.co/zNl0IPfFEo

[The Wall Street Journal @WSJ]

As sprawling, noisy open-concept floor plans prove divisive, some homeowners are adopting the British snug—a small, comfy, den-like space where a television doesn’t dominate the décor or the vibe https://t.co/LUhclSK2xa https://t.co/LUhclSK2xa

[Phil Labonte 🇺🇸 @philthatremains]

More evidence DEI makes all industry less safe and less competent.

[James Lindsay, anti-Communist @ConceptualJames]

Let's have a close look at Boeing and DEI!

Boeing's corporate filings with the SEC reveal that in beginning 2022, the annual bonus plan to reward CEO and executives for increasing profit for shareholders and prioritizing safety was changed to reward them if they hit DEI targets.

[Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok]

BREAKING: I received this from a source in O’Hare Airport in Chicago. Parts of the airport were sectioned off to house illegals. There were too many illegals and now they overflowed into the terminal area.

My source says they were mainly Hispanic men and he was asked not to record. Why are they trying to hide this?!

[Aaron Sibarium @aaronsibarium]

NEW: Before becoming Harvard president, Claudine Gay watered down the school’s policy on research misconduct, making it harder to punish professors for plagiarism—and greenlighting the very rules the school invoked in a last-ditch effort to save her job.🧵https://t.co/Pca7Zv1qgH

[New York Post @nypost]

Beloved bagel shop owner gunned down while vacationing with husband in New Orleans https://t.co/dNS546yDbA

[Bill Melugin @BillMelugin_]

Students in NYC are being kicked out of their high school and pushed into remote learning in order to temporarily house almost 2,000 migrants who crossed into the U.S. illegally & have been released from federal custody.
This is a jaw dropper.

[Bill Ackman @BillAckman]

A fun fact:

Our lawyers used the Wayback Machine to check @MIT's plagiarism policy back when Neri wrote her thesis in 2009.

It turns out that MIT's academic integrity handbook did not require citation or even mention Wikipedia until 2013, four years after Neri wrote her dissertation and used Wikipedia for the definitions of 15 words and/or terms. Bear in mind that 2009 was still pretty early days for Wikipedia.

Interestingly, Business Insider also used the Wayback Machine to research MIT's plagiarism policy, but only when they cited it to manufacture plagiarism claims against Neri:

"MIT’s academic integrity handbook notes that authors must either “use quotation marks around the words and cite the source,” or “paraphrase or summarize acceptably and cite the source.” Identical language appeared in MIT’s handbook at least as far back as 2007."

[From Business Insider's initial email to Pershing Square of Jan. 3, 2014, 1030pm]

What are the chances that Business Insider examined the MIT handbook "as far back as 2007" and didn't notice that there was no requirement to cite Wikipedia nor was it even mentioned until April 4, 2013 when the following language was added:

"Wikipedia is Not a Reliable Academic Source

Many of us use Wikipedia as a source of information when we want a quick explanation of something.  However, Wikipedia or other wikis, collaborative information sites contributed to by a variety of people, are not considered reliable sources for academic citation, and you should not use them as sources in an academic paper. The bibliography published at the end of the Wikipedia entry may point you to potential sources. However do not assume that these sources are reliable – use the same criteria to judge them as you would any other source. Do not consider the Wikipedia bibliography as a replacement for your own research."

To be clear, Neri did not use Wikipedia as a source, but only for the definitions of 15 words and/or terms for her dissertation.

While there was no way for us to do this research in the 91 minutes we were given before Business Insider published its story, our lawyers found it in about 24 hours.

This finding wipes away 15, or more than half of the plagiarism claims made by Business Insider at 5:19pm last Friday night.

According to the Cornell Law Legal Information Institute:

In order to prove "prima facie defamation,"

"a plaintiff must show four things:

1) a false statement purporting to be fact;

2) publication or communication of that statement to a third person;

3) fault amounting to at least negligence; and

4) damages, or some harm caused to the reputation of the person or entity who is the subject of the statement."

This leads me to a few question for the @X legal community.

If you look at all of the evidence that has emerged over the last few days, do you think Neri has been defamed under the four factor test above?

What exposure does Axel Springer have to claims at Business Insider in light of the fact that it has been on personal notice from me at a board and CEO level about Business Insider's wrongdoing for more than 54 hours and it has yet to issue a corrected statement about its investigation nor de-published the articles.

Axel Springer has not updated its statement that:

“While the facts of the reports have not been disputed, over the past few days questions have been raised about the motivation and the process leading up to the reporting — questions that we take very seriously"

Do you think the facts have been sufficiently disputed?

I have two questions for the private equity and finance communities:

What is the net worth of Business Insider?

What is the net worth of Axel Springer?

[Dave Rubin @RubinReport]

Bill, respectfully you are slightly missing the point. BI, and others like HuffPo, Daily Beast etc,. *only* exist to do these smear jobs on anyone who steps outside of their world view. Asking them to have journalistic integrity would be like asking a soccer player to use his hands.

Your aim is totally correct, but don’t expect shaming them will do anything. They need to be destroyed if you have the temerity to do so.

[Bill Ackman @BillAckman]

On Sunday afternoon, Nicholas Carlson, the Global Editor-in Chief of Business Insider stated in an email to his staff that:

"The facts of the stories have not been disputed by Oxman or her husband Bill Ackman.

Ackman and others have raised concerns about our reporting process, as well as the motivation for publishing the stories."

Mr. Carlson is lying or he has been misled by others.

I personally disputed the facts (as well as the reporting process) of Business Insider's stories initially in an approximately one-hour conversation with a director of Business Insider on Sunday morning beginning at 10:01am.

I did so again in an about 35-minute or so conversation with Martin Varsavsky, a director of Axel Springer who called me unsolicited at 12:34pm later that day.

In the am call with the Business Insider director, he told me that Business Insider had already launched an investigation of the stories and the reporting processes around them.

In light of the investigation, I asked him to have Business Insider publicly release a statement to that effect as I thought it would help mitigate the reputational damage of the stories while they were being investigated.

He said he would discuss this request and the other issues I raised with his colleagues and get back to me within "an hour or so."

I made multiple efforts to reach the director by phone and by text when he did not call back within an hour or so.

I sent this series of texts to the director beginning at 1:33pm:

You promised to return my call in about an hour.

You need to withdraw the story now as you have an investigation pending regarding factual and other review. You need to put this out now. I just got off the phone with Martin [the director of Axel Springer who called me unsolicited] and he agrees.

What are you waiting for and why have you not called me back.

Every minute more damage is created.

The story is the number one trending story on X.

He responded

Thanks, Bill. I am working only on this. I will get back to you as soon as I can.

I responded:

We are the number one trending with 38.6k post and the princess of Wales is number 2 at 2,998 posts

Read this now please: [and I linked the below tweet]

https://t.co/R4izwbIfaB

Thanks, Bill. Reading now. And then will call you.

He finally called at 3:45pm, more than four hours after he said he would call.

On the call, he told me that Axel Springer would be putting out a statement about the investigation.

I was initially encouraged by what he had said, and asked if BI would be withdrawing the stories. He said that they would not be doing so at this time as they stand behind the stories.

Shortly, thereafter Axel Springer's statement was released which said in part:

“While the facts of the reports have not been disputed, over the past few days questions have been raised about the motivation and the process leading up to the reporting — questions that we take very seriously"

The fact that both the Editor in Chief of Business Insider and its owner Axel Springer have both falsely stated that the stories were not disputed have greatly contributed to the enormous reputational and emotional damage that have occurred to my wife @NeriOxman.

By making these statements, Business Insider and Axel Springer have effectively confirmed that their reporting is entirely factually accurate.

This could not be further from the truth.

In response to the initial Business Insider story, Neri issued a statement acknowledging that she had inadvertently omitted quotation marks in four paragraphs in her 330-page dissertation, all of which, however, were properly cited.

In addition, Neri acknowledged that she had inadvertently omitted to cite one paraphrased sentence in her 330-page dissertation.

Neri did, however, cite the same author whose citation she missed in each of the other eight times she referred to his work in her dissertation, which makes it clear that this one missed citation was unintentional.

In her statement, Neri graciously apologized for the punctuation errors and the missing citation.

Her statement can be found here:

https://t.co/5dikIdd1Uy

Shortly after Neri issued her statement, Business Insider published the following headline and the materially false and misleading article which followed.

Neri Oxman admits to plagiarizing in her doctoral dissertation after BI report

According to https://t.co/wG89Y6ob2q:

to "plagiarize" means:

to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own

to use (another's production) without crediting the source

to commit literary theft

to present as new and original an idea or product derived from an existing source

In other words, plagiarism is an act of fraud. It involves both stealing someone else's work and lying about it afterward (emphasis added)."

Neri did not do any of the above listed offenses.

Plagiarism is one of the most serious crimes you can accuse a professor of doing. A finding of plagiarism is catastrophic to a professor's career. It is also catastrophically damaging to a former tenured member of the faculty, even if she leaves university, and she founds a company based on her academic research.

If Neri in fact committed fraud and stole other people's ideas, who would ever invest in or do business with her or her company?

Because of the career-ending and reputationally damaging nature of a plagiarism finding, universities take allegations of plagiarism extremely seriously and adjudicate these cases with extraordinary care in academic tribunals. These proceedings typically take six or months before a finding is made, and can take years to be resolved if litigation ensues.

The facts of each case are meticulously reviewed often with the benefit of separate counsel representing the faculty member and the university.

Plagiarism is fraud. Fraud is a crime.

Neri admitted to making four clerical errors of punctuation and one missed footnote in her 330-page dissertation, and she apologized for doing so.

To this day, she has never admitted to plagiarism.

She has never committed fraud of any kind.

The following day, Business Insider sent a 7,000-word email alleging other purported plagiarism. The email was sent to Fran McGill, Pershing Square's head of communications, not to Neri Oxman or to her company.

The email subject heading states:

Journalist on deadline | Plagiarism by your wife

and the email begins:

"Dear Francis,

My colleagues and I have identified numerous additional examples of Dr. Oxman’s plagiarism and we plan to publish a story about them this evening."

The email continues for 12 more pages and 7,000 more words.

The email was received at 5:19pm after sundown last Friday.

The Business Insider story was published 91 minutes later.

The article makes novel and speculative assumptions about what is plagiarism including asserting that definitions of basic terms and words from Wikipedia and quotations from software and hardware manuals that describe products used in Neri's research are plagiarism.

Neri hired counsel yesterday and it is going to take weeks to properly respond to all of the assertions and factual misstatements and errors in all of the stories.

Business Insider's stories have been reposted and re-reported around the world in thousands of articles including on the front pages of the most important Israeli newspapers, where Neri spent the first 25 years of her life.

The Oxman plagiarism story was the number one trending story on X with 10 times the number of postings of the next most posted story. It remains one of the top read stories in the world.

As a result of the above, Neri has suffered catastrophic reputational damage, and enormous emotional harm.

I can't believe this is happening.

[Tucker Carlson @TuckerCarlson]

Ep. 61 This the smartest, best informed account of what actually happened on January 6th.

[Uncommon Sense @Uncommonsince76]

@thevivafrei Ray Epps was not gonna be charged at all until X called out how bad the hypocrisy was, then they gave him a slap on the wrist even though he clearly was one of the main instigators.

Ray Epps= Fed

[Nucific @Nucific]

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[Viva Frei @thevivafrei]

Ann Coulter’s X timeline over the last 24 hours:

“Ray Epps was never caught on camera, telling people to go into the Capitol”

“OK, he was caught on camera telling people to go into the Capitol, but that was on Jan. 5, not Jan. 6”

“OK, he was caught on camera telling people to go into the Capitol on Jan. 6, but he never entered a restricted area”

“OK, he entered a restricted area, but he only did it to keep the peace”

“OK, he admitted in a text to his nephew that he orchestrated the events, but Trump bad”.

Does that about summarize it @AnnCoulter?

[Clandestine @WarClandestine]

1) Say hello to Nathan Wolfe.

American virologist and founder of METABIOTA!

The Biden-funded biolab company via Rosemont Seneca, studying bat coronaviruses in Ukraine circa 2014, via project PREDICT with CIA proxy, USAID.

He is the epicenter of the Deep State bio network.

Not only is he the founder of Biden’s Metabiota, he is a WEF member, DoD employee, sat on the board of Peter Daszak’s EcoHealth Alliance involved in Wuhan, funded by DARPA, Gates Foundation, funded Ghislaine Maxwell’s TerraMar project with the Clintons, member of The Edge Foundation collecting microbes and housing animal viruses all over the world, AND Russia have accused him directly of being the key player in creating SARS-CoV-2 from a bat coronavirus he discovered in Ukraine.

Before I get started, I’d like to clarify that other people have dug into this subject already for years, I am not breaking any news here. However some new developments have fallen into place, specifically as it pertains to Russia and the Epstein blackmail operation, and I personally have connected some dots that I was unaware of until now, and the world needs to see it.

I might be late to the party, but this is INSANE!

Thread!🧵 @virushunter

[Bill Ackman @BillAckman]

Imagine that you were formerly a professor at a university, and you are an entrepreneur now.

One day, a company that you have no affiliation with (other than its CEO is your husband) gets an email from a reporter from Business Insider which says that they have found five examples of plagiarism in your 2010 dissertation.

The communication person brings this to your attention and lets you know that you are being given to 12 pm to respond.

You are concerned about these allegations because even being accused of plagiarism can destroy your career and life which depend entirely on intellectual property and your reputation.

In the university context, plagiarism allegations are adjudicated by administrative boards in a process that takes months.

Here, a business publication has determined that you are a plagiarist, and has given you only a few hours to respond before they tell the entire world that you are plagiarist. So you have no choice to respond as quickly as you can with whatever documents you can get your hands on.

After a few hours of review, you determine that it appears that in four paragraphs of your 330-page dissertation, you cited the author and the source correctly, but you omitted eight quotation marks.

In the other instance, it appears that you paraphrased the author correctly, but you failed to cite him. You featured the author in multiple other places in your dissertation and you cited him the eight other times, but somehow you missed this one.

Business Insider then runs the story with the headline:

John Doe's Celebrity Academic Wife Jane Doe's Dissertation is Marred by Plagiarism

You immediately respond to the story with a post on X in which you acknowledge the missing quotation marks for the four paragraphs, and the missing attribution for the sentence, and you apologize for your mistake.

Business Insider immediately runs another story entitled:

Jane Doe Admits to Plagiarizing in her Doctoral Dissertation after Business Insider Report

This immediately becomes global news because your husband is a high-profile person and you are one of the most acclaimed designers in the world with recent retrospectives at MoMA, and SFMoMA.

The next day, at 5:19pm on Friday night, the same reporter sends an email to your husband's communication person, which says that Business Insider has identified 28 additional plagiarism allegations identified from "a thorough review of [your] published work."

The email is 12 pages long and has 6,961 words. The first 15 examples identified as plagiarism are all from Wikipedia entries for definitions of words and terms that you used in your dissertation, which include weaving, computer graphics, optimization, heat flux, sustainable design, computer-aided design, and other similar terms.

You are not even sure whether or not this is plagiarism. You honestly don't know as you have never seen Wikipedia cited as a source.

The other examples that are deemed plagiarism and included in the remaining 13 examples by Business Insider include multiple excerpts of text from software manuals for Rhino 3-D modeling software, from hardware manufacture websites including Stratasys in the description of their 3-D printer used in their website,, which prints some of your designs, from patent applications where the linked reference is unrelated to your dissertation, and may in fact be a reference to your own patent, but you have no time to check.

There is no time to run down these references, let alone read the 6,961 word email. Many of the manuals are no longer available and a substantial number of the references the reporter has given you do not appear to be correct.

In fact, until this moment when you are writing this post, you never had a chance to read the email in its entirety.

At 6:51pm, one hour and 32 minutes from the time stamp on the reporter's email, Business Insider publishes a story entitled:

Academic Celebrity Jane Doe plagiarized from WikiPedia, Scholars, a Textbook, and Other Sources Without any Attribution

This becomes the number one story in the world with global headlines effectively all of which say:

Bill Ackman's Wife Jane Doe Admits to Plagiarism

No one reads any further than the headline. Who reads articles these days anyway?

It is now the number one trending item on X with 35,600 posts versus number two which is the Princess of Wales with 3,174 posts.

Does this seem like fair journalism to you?

Does this seem like a fair way to determine whether a professor plagiarized in her dissertation 15 years ago?

Does this seem like a fair way to destroy the reputation of one of the most talented and famous designer/scientists in the world, even if she is married to billionaire?

[Bill Ackman @BillAckman]

The reporter told Fran that she was going to publish her story shortly thereafter that evening so it was clear to the reporter and to us that we would not have time to respond. In one of my previous posts, I got some of the timing slightly wrong. It was worse than I thought.

Fran received her email at 5:19pm. He found me and Neri about 10 minutes later. A few minutes after Neri and I began to read the 12-page email, we realized that there was no way we could investigate the plagiarism allegations in an hour or two, let alone days without access to all of the underlying documents and a careful review of the relevant papers and sources. As you know, plagiarism allegations are no joke and often take months to adjudicate.

With no possibility of responding in time, I posted at 6:01pm that we would launch a review of @MIT’s faculty. I am sure you remember that post. At 6:51pm (I had originally thought it was 7:10pm or 7:15pm), Business Insider posted their story,

one hour and 32 minutes after the reporter’s 12-page email was sent.

Reporters don’t like it when you respond to their stories publicly before they are released. I have never done so before. However, this circumstance was so incredibly egregious, I felt that I had no choice.

A reporter was attacking my wife yet again, a woman who is totally uninvolved in my advocacy on higher education, but they thought attacking my family would cause me more pain. Even the mafia operates with more dignity and respect for family, and I apologize to the mafia for the comparison. Business Insider gave us no time to respond, and acted with actual malice and bad faith.

For further info, please review her posts where she alleged that she had spoken to me and was trying to help me understand the BI plagiarism allegations. I have never spoken to this person and never will. I have addressed her false statements in two responses to her posts. I encourage you to read them if you care to learn more.

Earlier today, Neri heard that Business Insider is now calling her former students for whatever story it is working on now. You might ask yourself:

Why is Business Insider reviewing and attacking Neri Oxman’s life and career?

In my 36-year career, I have never had the experience of a journalist and their employer attacking the life partner of a subject of any story, even a big one. Even Herbalife and the journalists that covered that escapade chose to stay away from attacking my family. Perhaps I am just lucky or perhaps Business Insider is a disgusting and unethical journalistic operation.

I had forgotten Axel Springer had acquired Business Insider. Axel Springer is now controlled by KKR. I am therefore incredibly shocked by the conduct of a company controlled by KKR, a firm that I have had enormous respect for over the years. I hope they have no idea what is going on in their Business Insider subsidiary, but I am going to look into it. My best guess is that the incentives for management of BI are designed poorly, or as I have been told, the Editor of Business Insider’s Investigative Division has an agenda that he is pursuing against my wife or something else is going on.

I would greatly appreciate if the X community can help figure this out.

Other journalists sadly are playing the same game. They call OXMAN for comment, which as a start up in stealth mode doesn’t have a communications person, and the office manager takes a message. The message is then passed to Neri who is, of course, focused on her work. By the time Neri has a chance to field the inquiry, the story is already published in most cases, literally minutes later. This has to stop.

Last night, a reporter at Bloomberg, let’s call her Kathy, left messages on my kids’ cell phones that she was writing a story on me and asking them to call back so they could answer her questions.

I am an enormous fan of the Bloomberg company. I advocated for Mike Bloomberg for president such is the respect I have for him. I know this reporter and I can’t believe that she called my children on their cell phones.

Kathy, WTF is going on?

Lastly, if X was not independently controlled and governed by a free speech absolutist, Neri and I would not have had the ability to respond in a rapid fashion in a public forum where free speech is allowed, encouraged, and respected. I would also not have had the ability to reach millions of people with what I believe are important messages.

And I would not have been able to be nearly as effective in my campaign to help save the higher education system in our country, and I represent just one of hundreds of millions of grateful users.

So thank you @elonmusk !!! and thank you @lindayaX for holding strong.

I am going to stop here even though I have a lot more to say. The good news is that you don’t run out of ink on X.

I am grateful for your taking the time to read this missive if you have made it this far, but don’t worry I am sure I will have an excuse to write again.