Cornell grad suspended from job, doxxed after being wrongly linked to chats about alleged gang rape

A former Cornell student has been suspended from his job after being falsely linked to fraternity brothers’ chats about the alleged gang rape — even though he’d already graduated before it happened.The grad, who calls himself an “ally” who is “progressive to a fault,” was not at the 2024 Chi Ph party and had no knowledge of chats about “free p—y” until they emerged recently in a lawsuit, he told the New Yorker, which referred to him only as B.He had only heard about a public-safety alert, texting a frat leader friend that he hoped he wasn’t involved, adding, “Please tell me we’ve already de-brothered the people who were involved.”But when accuser Jane Doe’s shocking allegations blew up after she filed a lawsuit accusing seven frat bros of raping her, B was shocked to see his name included in a TikTok claiming to be a verified list of the callous frat members who chatted about the sick party.The clip, entitled “Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the ‘brothers of Chi Phi,” quickly went wildly viral, amassing millions of views — and taken at face value by online sleuths, who dug in further and started listing B’s name, address and place of work, he told the mag.It was like “a bomb went off,” B said, with his employer getting unverified and anonymous messages wrongly connecting him to the incident.He was placed on paid leave from his job, which the New Yorker did not identify beyond saying it was something that involved building trust with clients.His bosses knew that he had graduated before the party, but still demanded proof that he had never been in the group chat, which he said was impossible without the power to subpoena Snapchat for the records.He was still on forced lave when he spoke to the New Yorker for the article published Thursday.He hired a defamation attorney who sent a cease-and-desist letter to the architect of a doxxing website, which then removed B’s name along with other frat members who were falsely implic...