Thread by @kattenbarge

I didn’t expect to wake up to a call from my editor telling me a YouTuber with 2.8M subscribers uploaded a secretly recorded phone call with me.

I really didn’t expect that YouTuber to then reveal on a livestream that he didn’t read the article he made a 20-min video about.

.@jeffwittek , thanks for apologizing. At one point as @trishapaytas and @h3h3productions explained to you for over an hour why that apology was necessary, you admitted that you intended to send your fans to attack me for writing the article you did not read.

They did! I received more than one detailed death threat today. And literally hundreds of hate comments and direct messages.

Jeff also suggested on this livestream that I should have donated the amount of money Insider made off the article to the accuser. Not only would that be an extreme show of bias toward the accuser, but it would also have put me and Insider in legal jeopardy.

This isn’t intended to be a “poor me” thread, but I did want to be transparent about what today was like.

I have definitely made and will continue to make mistakes but I have to say, this story wasn’t one of them.

The impact has been huge and it’s worth all of Jeff’s fans calling me names to tell Hannah’s story and start a conversation around consent and online exploitation.

As usual, I’m very thankful to all of you who have been supportive today and every day.
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