a bad way to go about it.” TYT wanted to distance themselves from the incident in order to protect their image, and fired Chariton when he refused to resign over the false accusation. However, TYT later revised their initial public statement on January 12, 2018, saying, "This chapter is now closed." Chariton settled the matter with TYT. On January 18, 2018, HuffPost fully removed their contributor blogging platform due to misuse and unverifiable postings. References 1986 births Living people American investigative journalists The Young Turks people University of Tampa alumni American political commentators American activist journalists