Grad was doxed, suspended from job after getting falsely linked to 'Cornell 7' case

A Cornell graduate was suspended from his job and doxed after he was falsely linked to chats about the supposed “gang rape” that took place at the college. The individual had graduated before the incident took place. 

The man, who calls himself an “ally” and “progressive to a fault,” said that he was not at the frat party where Jane Doe and several male students at the college had a lengthy sexual encounter. Doe, after saying that nothing was “illegal” in texts to the men that were present, later alleged that she was gang raped by the seven men.

The graduate did not have any knowledge about the “free p*ssy” text chain until it came out in Doe’s lawsuit, he told reporters at The New Yorker. The man was only referred to as “B” in the report.

Despite him not being involved, his name popped up in a TikTok after Doe’s allegations that the seven frat brothers raped her. The video claimed that he was on the list of students associated with the case.

The TikTok that connected him to the case quickly went viral, and then people found his personal information as well as his workplace. He said it was like “a bomb went off,” and his employer started getting messages connecting him with the incident. He was later placed on leave from his job, and his bosses required proof that he was not connected to the chats.

He was then forced to leave his job because he could not use subpoena power to get records of the Snapchat messages. He was forced to deactivate his social media accounts, and online sleuths sent him, as well as his family, anonymous messages, with his mom even getting one that said, “You know you raised a rapist, right?”

They “couldn’t get to me, they just tried to get to anyone adjacent to me. It spread all the way out,” he said.

Another man, Matthew Ingalls, 23, who shares a name with one of the seven people accused of gang rape, but did not go to Cornell at all, got death threats after his address was mistakenly attached to the lawsuit on the New York case docket.

None of the men in the case have been charged and Jane Doe, within days of the incident in 2024, told one of the boys she would later accuse of rape, that it was “our body our choice.”