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The Associated Press was blasted and forced to make a humiliating U-turn after they published an article about Claudine Gay's resignation with a sensational headline that said plagiarism was a 'new conservative weapon.'
Gay, 53, resigned as the President of Harvard University on Tuesday in a bitter letter to colleagues and students.
She stepped down from her role 28 days after her shocking response at a congressional testimony about campus anti-Semitism. Gay refused to categorize calls for genocide of Jews as harassment or admit that Jewish students had a right not to feel unsafe at Ivy League schools.
The headline that originally said: 'Harvard president’s resignation highlights new conservative weapon against colleges: plagiarism' has since been changed to 'Plagiarism charges downed Harvard’s president. A conservative attack helped to fan the outrage.'