Thread by @cbouzy

Earlier this month, I announced Bot Sentinel would look into what appeared to be a coordinated hate campaign targeting Meghan and Harry, Duke and Duchess of Sussex.

On Tuesday, we released a report outlining a coordinated hate campaign targeting Meghan and Harry, and we listed the accounts behind the campaign.

You can review the report here:

botsentinel.com/newsroom/repor…

Shortly after announcing our investigation into the suspicious activity, the hate accounts named in the report attacked my deceased mother, shared screenshots of fake tweets from my “daughter,” published my private information, and recently tweeted confidential documents.

I became a target for simply investigating hate accounts targeting Meghan and Harry. I understand some of you don’t care about the royal family, but this isn’t about that.

People created single-purpose hate accounts to target private citizens, and anyone can become a target of this type of sinister hate campaign. After living this eye-opening and terrifying experience, I have decided to do something about it.

Today I am happy to announce Bot Sentinel will release a new tool created specifically to track single-purpose hate accounts.

The new tool will make it easier for journalists, researchers, and the folks at Twitter to monitor the single-purpose hate accounts infesting the platform. It will be much harder for these accounts to go back to business as usual while everyone monitors them.

We call it “Hate Tracker,” and it will be the first tool of its type for Twitter. Furthermore, we are updating our classification model and algorithms to identify accounts created solely to target specific individuals.

Targeted harassment isn’t normal, and we want to make sure Bot Sentinel can identify all forms of harassment. Free speech doesn’t give anyone the right to target, defame, or dox someone they don’t like.

If cowards want to hide behind usernames while coordinating hate campaigns, Bot Sentinel will expose them in real-time while they do it.