On Tuesday's broadcast of MSNBC's "Alex Wagner Tonight," guest host Ali Velshi stated that outgoing Harvard President Claudine Gay's resignation is "a story of bad actors, like Chris Rufo, trying to bend academia toward their own ideological missions." And that mainstream outlets helped Rufo in his "crusade against the first black woman to serve as President of the oldest institution of higher education in the country" by covering Gay's "at worst, instances of inadequate citation" that "are not what the word plagiarism makes you think of."