Ackman and Business Insider are locked in a bitter battle after the latter published two stories on Jan. 4 and 5, which said the Pershing Square founder's wife Neri Oxman engaged in plagiarism in her 2020 doctoral thesis.
Business Insider and its parent company, Axel Springer, said Sunday that they stood by the outlet’s reporting that uncovered Neri Oxman, a prominent former professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the wife of Bill Ackman, had plagiarized in her doctoral dissertation.