In May 2025, a screenshot of Linda McMan to the President of an American university spread in the media and social networks. It was full of notes about the mistakes made by the official - supposedly representatives of Harvard so ironically hinted that the education of the official herself leaves much to be desired. We checked the authenticity of this screenshot.

As reported in the publications, US Minister Linda McMan sent a letter to President of Harvard University Alan Garber, in which she called the university the laughing stock of the American higher education system and accused his leadership of systemic mistakes and violations. McMan warned that the educational institution would not receive financial assistance from the federal government if she did not comply with his claim.

In response, Harvard representatives allegedly edited a letter in the teaching style and published on social networks. It allocated dozens of mistakes made by the Minister of Education, among them the incorrect use of the capital letters, some words and punctuation marks.

In Russian, the news was distributed "Anticorus" Focus.ua, Post.factum, Kursiv Media and a number of other media, and posts in Facebook, Instagram, Threads And hundreds of reposts and thousands of likes were gaining other social networks. Many at the same time referred to a certain publication in the Daily Mail.

The conflict between the US presidential administration Donald Trump and the leadership of Harvard University provoked a campus in the campus in 2023–2024 Protest shares Against the military operation of Israel in the gas sector. Against the background of the scandal due to accusations of Harvard’s leadership of insufficient fighting anti-Semitism, then University President Klodin Gay, also convicted in plagiarism, She resigned.

April 16, 2025 Trump declaredthat Harvard University must be deprived of federal financing, since “he teaches hatred and stupidity” and “hiring Almost exclusively crippled, radical left-handed idiots and dumbasses. ” The US Presidential Administration presented a series to the university requirements For “amnesty”, including the abolition of all programs within the framework of the DEI policy (“diversity, equality, inclusiveness”) and the ban on wearing masks in campus. Harvard President Alan Garber announced that he would not fulfill Washington's requirements, and after freezing part of financing in the amount of $ 2.2 billion filed a lawsuit To court.

There is no doubt in the existence of a letter that McMan sent to Harvard - on May 6, an official Placed He is on his page on the social network X. In contact with the President of the University of Garber, the minister reports that the university allegedly violates federal legislation and ethical standards, adopting foreign students who are not ready to comply with US laws and promoting racial inequality. This McMan explains the decision of the federal government to cancel grants for Harvard.

Soon on social networks spread The screenshots of the eloquent answer, prepared, as claimed, by Harvard representatives. Those allegedly noted numerous errors in the previously received letter and published it in this form.

About this, as it was correctly reported in some audited publications, wrote a British tabloid Daily Mail. However, attentive readers could notice that the newspaper writes about “several different” versions of the letter with edits. Indeed, at least two popular versions.

"Verified" did not find a single corrected version of McMan site Harvard University and on its verified pages in Facebook, X, Instagram, Tiktok And Linkedin. There are no them in personal blog Alan Garber in X.

As the analysis of social networks shows, McMan's riding a wave of ridicule was raised by users X, publishing their own screenshots with corrections. On the morning of May 6 at 08:16 Moscow time shown above the option with notes on a white background Laid graduate student of the Massachusetts Technological Institute Daniel Luo (@danielluo_pi). He accompanied the pictures with the signature of “Our Minister of Education”. At the same time, Luo did not claim that the employees of Harvard University left her editing, which was directly stated in the subsequent comments. According to him words, it was a humorous publication, and some of his professional economic jokes in the screenshot remained Unconducted. In an interview with AFP agency Luo's factory confirmed His authorship expressed surprise about the viral popularity of his post (21 million views at the time of writing this analysis).

As for the version of the line on a darker background, also presented above, it is an hour and a half after Luo Published Journalist Bi Jay Betel, indicating his authorship. This option did not become so viral, but it was his screenshots that Daily Mail placed, and after it, some Russian -speaking media picked up the mistake.

Thus, Harvard University, in response to Linda's letter, McMan did not put any screenshots with edits on social networks. Errors in the letter of the American official were found by users X, but subsequently their publications began to spread with incorrect comments.

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