Ruth Shalit Barrett, the freelance writer whose widely read 2020 story the Atlantic retracted after saying it had lost confidence in her credibility, is suing the magazine for $1 million in damages. She alleges that the retraction of the article and a lengthy editor’s note that disavowed her and mentioned incidents of plagiarism in her past “destroyed her reputation and career.”
Barrett said in a lawsuit filed Friday in federal court in D.C. that the Atlantic “unlawfully smeared” her “for acting in accordance with the law and ethical precepts of the profession of journalism.”
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