In February 2016 , the site appended lengthy corrections to five stories by reporter Juan M. Thompson and retracted a sixth , about Charleston church shooter Dylann Roof , written over the previous year , focused on the African-American community . Shortly afterward , a note from editor Betsy Reed indicated that Thompson had been fired recently after his editors discovered " a pattern of deception " in his reporting . According to Reed , he had " fabricated several quotes in his stories and created fake email accounts that he used to impersonate people , one of which was a Gmail account in my name "
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