Billionaire hedge fund manager Bill Ackman threatens to sue Business Insider after the outlet published two articles accusing his wife, Neru Oxman, of plagiarism in her doctoral dissertation in 2010.
Ackman said Monday that Business Insider and its parent company, Axel Springer, “have doubled down on their false and defamatory claims” after the outlet made allegations of plagiarism against Oxman, a renowned designer and former MIT professor.
“By complaint I mean a lawsuit, to be clear,” Ackman added to X.
Just hours earlier, Ackman said that Business Insider was “toasted” in a post that included a scene with a quote “At My Signal, Unleash Hell” from the 2000 movie “Gladiator.”
On Sunday, Business Insider’s top executives said they were satisfied with the fairness and accuracy of the story about Oxman following a complaint from Ackman.
The plagiarism accusations come after Ackman campaigned against Harvard President Claudine Gay, who resigned earlier this month following criticism of her responses to congressional hearings on antisemitism and accusations that her academic writing contained examples of improperly credited work.
Bill Ackman said he would sue Business Insider after the outlet published an article accusing his wife Neru Oxman of plagiarism in her doctoral dissertation in 2010. REUTERS Ackman wrote on X that “Business Insider is toast.”
The outlet has raised both the idea of hypocrisy and the possibility that academic dishonesty is rampant, even among the nation’s most prominent scholars.
The first Business Insider article, on Jan. 4, noted that Ackman had received disclosures about Gay’s work to support his cause against him — but the organization’s reporters “found a similar pattern of plagiarism” by Oxman.
A second piece, published the next day, said Oxman had stolen sentences and paragraphs from Wikipedia, fellow scholars and technical documents in his 2010 doctoral dissertation at MIT.
A Business Insider reporter claimed that Oxman’s dissertation had stolen sentences and paragraphs from Wikipedia, fellow scholars and technical documents. Madison Voelkel CEO/BFA/Shutterstock Business Insider Barbara Peng said the story was “accurate and factually well documented.” Business Insider Intelligence Group
Ackman complained that it was a low blow to attack someone’s family in such a way and said Business Insider reporters gave him less than two hours to respond to the accusations.
He suggested the editors were anti-Zionist. Oxman was born in Israel.
On Sunday, Business Insider CEO Barbara Peng released a statement saying “there was no unfair bias or personal, political and/or religious motivation in pursuing the story.”
Ackman said his wife suffered “severe emotional trauma” after the article was published. AP
Peng said the stories were newsworthy and Oxman, with his public profile as a leading intellectual, was fair game as a subject.
The stories are “accurate and the facts are well documented,” Peng said.
“Business Insider supports and empowers our reporters to share newsworthy stories and facts with our readers, and we do so with editorial freedom,” Peng wrote.
Ackman said his wife admitted to missing four quotation marks and one missing footnote in the 330-page dissertation.
He said the article could have “literally killed” his wife if not for the support of her family and friends.
“He has suffered a severe emotional injury,” he wrote in X, “and as an introvert, it is very, very difficult for him to go through it every day.”
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