Newsweek sees fit to publish a bizarrely sloppy piece on That Bad Woman by one Ryan Smith, its Senior Pop Culture & Entertainment Reporter.

Author J.K. Rowling has fallen silent on her usually busy X (formerly Twitter) feed, after Olympic gold medalist boxer Imane Khelif filed a legal complaint in France for alleged cyber harassment over statements regarding her gender.

“After” a lot of things. After the sun came up, after we all became a day older, after time passed…and after Rowling went on vacation. That little word “after” can be a sly way of implying causality without actually ascribing causality. That of course is what Newsweek is letting its pop culture boffin do here.

On August 9, lawyers for Khelif filed a lawsuit with a special unit of the public prosecutor’s office in Paris, stemming from false statements that spread online about her gender after the Algerian boxer defeated Italy’s Angela Carini in her first fight of the 2024 Olympic Games. 

But Ryan Smith and Newsweek don’t know that the statements are false. Thin ice, here.

Harry Potter author Rowling—who has faced backlash over her comments about transgender people for a number of years—was among those who slammed Khelif’s inclusion in the Olympics, incorrectly referring to the boxer as a “man.”

Again: Newsweek and Smith don’t know the “incorrectly” part.

Rowling has been silent on X since August 7, when she shared a post from researcher Maya Forstater, who was fired from her job after making anti-trans statements.

And, this sleazy magazine and reporter fail to mention, won an employment tribunal case against her former employer.

Khelif spoke about how the erroneous statements regarding her gender during the Olympics had affected her, saying that “there was a lot of noise from politicians, athletes, stars, artists—Elon Musk and Donald Trump and that hurt me a lot, I cannot describe how scared I was.”

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She added: “This is a big shame for my family, for the honor of my family, for the honor of Algeria, for the women of Algeria and especially the Arab world. The whole world knows I am a Muslim girl.”

Oh really. Then how is it, many people have asked, that we can see all those photos of this Muslim girl hugging “her” male trainer and sitting on his shoulders while he grips “her” thighs?

Eh? Look at that – “her crotch” is pressed against his head, and his hands are on “her” naked thighs. Algeria is cool with that?

“Newsweek” might as well be Bullshitweek.