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October 29, 2008, 01:47 PM ET
Founder of Gossip Web Site Faces Critics at Georgetown U.
Washington — Last night the founder of JuicyCampus.com, Matt Ivester, gave a talk at Georgetown University and fielded questions from students who are critical of the site. Students around the country have lambasted the site, saying the anonymous forum is full of personal attacks, false and malicious statements, and hate speech.
It was the first time Mr. Ivester had agreed to speak on a campus, and he said in an interview before his talk that he knew he would face an angry and critical crowd.
He was right. More than 100 students showed up, and just about every question was hostile. At first Mr. Ivester only responded to questions that had been written down in advance by students and that were read aloud, but near the end of the evening he agreed to let students approach a microphone to ask their questions directly.
See what happened, and catch an interview with Mr. Ivester, in the latest installment of Wired Campus TV, below. —Jeffrey R. Young
Categories: Student-Life, Social-Networking
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