Erdely also was found liable for four statements she made on Slate’s “DoubleX Gabfest” podcast on Nov. 26, 2014, but she was found to have acted with malice in just two of the statements.

In one of those statements, Erdely said, “When [Jackie] does actually run into some of her alleged assailants on campus sometimes, just the sight of them, obviously it’s a shock, but it also tends to send her into a depression. So it just goes to show sort of the emotional toll something like this would take. I just think it would require a great deal of support for her to move forward … She really hasn’t had any of that support from her friends, from the administration, nor from her family.”

The jury also found Erdely to have acted with malice when she wrote in an email sent Nov. 30, 2014, to The Washington Post: “As I’ve already told you, the gang-rape scene that leads the story is the alarming account that Jackie — a person whom I found to be credible — told to me, told her friends, and importantly, what she told the UVa administration, which chose not to act on her allegations in any way … THAT is the story: the culture that greeted her and so many other UVa women I interviewed, who came forward with allegations, only to be met with indifference.”