Patreon has banned the account of popular left-wing activist “Yes, You’re Racist” after it made errors while publicly exposing alleged attendees of the Charlottesville neo-Nazi march.
A Berkeley, California, hot dog stand fired an employee in response to an online campaign to identify and maliciously publish private information – or “dox” – participants in Saturday’s “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. The crowdsourcing effort to “name and shame,” however, has already misstepped, incorrectly identifying an Arkansas professor 1,100 miles away from the men carrying torches as a racist.
CNN and Andrew Kaczynski, head of the network’s Republican oppo research unit “KFILE,” gave a misleading defense after receiving an intense backlash to a Sunday night post boasting that he had tracked down and identified a man who claimed credit for a gif shared by President Donald Trump — and that CNN may reveal his identity if the man chooses to “repeat this ugly behavior.”
A request was made on pop star Lily Allen’s Twitter account for her 6 million followers to help “find out the true identity” of a woman who questioned details of Allen’s account of her son’s death.
The UK’s public prosecutor has demanded social media users who post “photoshopped” images and memes should face jail, as well as those who incite “virtual mobs” because they are “opposed to that person’s opinions”.
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has used its Trending online ‘bureau’ to attack a female, “right wing” Twitter user, going so far as to publish the woman’s personal details including her town of residence and her husband’s employment details. The
A new search engine and database says it aims to expose the purveyors of anonymous online ‘hate speech’ to employers, friends, and families.
When Alondra Cano’s constituents wrote to complain about her participation in a disruptive Black Lives Matter protest in the city, her response was to reveal their personal details on the Internet.
