Apparently, this must be said. If you create single-purpose hate accounts to harass someone, you are not engaging in harmless "criticism." If you create YouTube channels to monetize your hate and harassment, then you can't complain when your activities are scrutinized...
I don't care if you are 18 or 81; your age is irrelevant. You don't get a pass because you are middle-aged or a senior citizen. If you consciously decide to attack and cyberstalk someone just because you don't like them, you should be held accountable for your actions.
I find it hilarious you spend each day defaming someone, but now you want to whine and complain when the truth about you is exposed. So it's ok to lie about someone and make things up out of thin air, but it's not ok, to tell the truth about you? How exactly does that work?...
You have gotten away with this harassment for far too long. The platforms might allow you to spew your hateful nonsense, but we don't have to accept it. So if you think you hate me now, I promise you I will give you a lot more to hate me about before this is all over.
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During our investigation into Twitter hate accounts targeting Meghan and Harry, we observed hate accounts interacting with "royal experts." Because of the unusual relationship between the accounts, we expanded our investigation, and here is what we found: botsentinel.com/newsroom/repor…
Angela Levin’s interactions with hate accounts were more than all other journalists' and royal commentators' interactions combined. Angela had 102 interactions, and the majority were favorable to the hate accounts.
On one occasion, Murky__Meg, a now-suspended hate account, tweeted a conspiracy theory about Meghan and Harry paying $1.5 million to appear on the cover of Time Magazine. Angela amplified Murky__Meg’s tweet, and then three days later, Angela repeated the conspiracy theory on TV.
Yikes! Certain journalists probably should've scrubbed their tweets after we dropped the last report. Palling around with hate accounts isn't a good look.😳😬
Why are certain journalists amplifying random unknown hate accounts? Over 70 screenshots and counting...😐
One journalist in particular interacted with 16 hate accounts from our list approximately 50 times. Wow... just wow.
When we work with journalists and publish a report, we give journalists tons of data that we can’t make public for legal reasons. For this report, I also gave @ellievhall exclusive access to documents and communications relevant to this reporting...
Toxic trolls don’t understand that I didn’t drop in out of nowhere. When they were on AOL waiting for emails from Nana, I was coding algorithms to help protect documents. I invented a new method of steganography, and Avanquest acquired my technology...
When I launched Bot Sentinel in 2018, one of the first groups to use my technology was journalists. So from the start, I have been here trying to protect the most vulnerable from toxic trolls. Journalists, scientists, academia, and countless others use our tools and data...
In our recent report, we listed 81 accounts we believe are part of a coordinated hate campaign, and one account, in particular, is still active despite knowingly violating Twitter's rules. But what makes matters worse is Twitter sent us an email highlighting this hate account...
So let's examine why this hate account was accused of coordinating attacks and why Twitter should suspend the account. Here you can see the account tweeting to her followers about spamming my timeline with fake tweets and acknowledging she might be suspended soon for doing it...
Here she encourages her followers to report me with false allegations, and she gives them step-by-step instructions on how to do it. In another tweet, she encourages her followers to "share share share" the fake tweets she bragged about spamming in my timeline...
I am not speaking for @ellievhall but only for myself. I am incredibly disappointed with @TwitterSafety and the folks at Twitter. After we published the report, the targeted harassment against Ellie and me increased.
So much so that journalists are reaching out to me with legitimate safety concerns for me and my family. There are accounts openly bragging about spamming private information and photos of my family.
They have tweeted Google maps images, and are actively targeting us in plain sight for everyone to see. Everything outlined in the report is now happening to us, and yet Twitter wants to claim there is “no widespread coordination.”
Targeted harassment by single-purpose hate accounts is a problem we must tackle. I am happy to announce we have launched the Bot Sentinel Hate Tracker tool: botsentinel.com/trackers/hate-…
Hate accounts have been operating with impunity for far too long, and that begins to stop today.
We are currently tracking accounts targeting Meghan and Harry, Duke and Duchess of Sussex. However, after a few days of testing, we will add additional notable figures and organizations under attack. The database updates every few hours, and more accounts will be added soon.
We will enable the ability to export the list of accounts to a CSV file after tweaking a few things. If these accounts want to organize and attack others, they will be monitored by over 100,000 Bot Sentinel users while doing it. There is no more hiding in plain sight.