A week ago, According 2taz used Twitter to solicit sensitive information about Meghan and Harry. She had zero concern for their safety and security. Taz has 90,000 YouTube subscribers, 34,000 Twitter followers, and she is ok with being called a "royal commentator"... 
There are journalists I follow who don't have close to that reach. If Taz were based in Russia and pumping out disinformation about U.S. elections, she would've been suspended already. No, I am not claiming attacking an individual is the same as trying to disrupt elections...
However, allowing someone to dedicate their YouTube channel and Twitter account to disseminate falsehoods about an individual can have serious consequences, as we see with state-sponsored influence campaigns. Remember Pizzagate? Remember the gunman who believed the nonsense?...
What Taz and others like her are doing is extremely dangerous, so much so that Twitter and YouTube already have policies banning this type of activity. Yet, the targeted attacks and falsehoods are allowed to continue putting an entire family at risk for views and engagement...
And to be clear, this group is already out of control. They have no problem going after journalists or anyone who gets in their way. A group dedicated to hating an individual are able to successfully intimidate journalists to the point some are afraid to cover their activities...
Sadly, if this is allowed to continue, something terrible will eventually happen, and then the platforms and some folks in the media will pretend like it was some unforeseen tragedy no one could have expected. Of course, that would be a lie because we tried to warn you...
I will repeat this for the people in the back. Single-purpose hate accounts are dangerous. Allowing YouTube channels devoted to harassing individuals are dangerous. Accounts that terrorize journalists are dangerous. Standing idly by and not doing anything about it is negligence.
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