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Social Media Stains Nittany Lion Cubs

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A pair of Penn State students are learning the hard way that social media makes it hard to grow up gracefully. “A Kuwaiti exchange student has apologized for anti-American comments that sparked social media outrage and a campus police investigation,” Mitchell Gunter reported in The Daily Caller. “The comments were made by Pennsylvania State University student Hussein Altarakmah on Nov. 1 in private messages to Laura Loomer, a right-wing journalist and former Project Veritas operative.”

Loomer’s own retorts did not exactly elevate the elegance of the exchange.

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Malcolm A. Kline
Malcolm A. Kline is the Executive Director of Accuracy in Academia. If you would like to comment on this article, e-mail contact@academia.org.

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