Harvard threatened to sue the New York Post for defamation over accusations of plagiarism against President Claudine Gay in October, calling the claims “demonstrably false.” Then, the University’s own review found several instances of “duplicative language” in Gay’s work.
Now, the University is under fire for allegedly attempting to suppress claims of inadequate citation it later found were, at least in part, credible.
Harvard was first informed that the Post was pursuing a story about 27 “possible examples of plagiarism” against Gay through a press inquiry sent Oct. 24. At the time, the Post did not provide a source for the allegations, which had been circulating on anonymous chat forums since at least December 2022, accompanied by racial epithets and conspiracy theories.
In response, the University’s outside counsel, Clare Locke — a high-powered law firm specializing in defamation lawsuits — wrote in a letter to the Post that the alleged instances of plagiarism included in the media inquiry were “both cited and properly credited,” according to excerpts from the letter published Friday by the Post.
“These allegations of plagiarism are demonstrably false,” the letter says.
In the letter, Clare Locke also threatened future legal action against the New York Post.
“Why would someone making such a complaint be unwilling to attach their name to it?” the letter says.
On Oct. 29, five days after the New York Post’s initial comment request, Gay requested the Harvard Corporation —...
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