“ Culture critic Ella Dawson has a Twitter thread compiling reporting on the myriad ways in which this trial is not only destroying years of progress made against domestic abuse in the US, but also laying the groundwork for a culture in which bots and bad actors harass, vilify, and eviscerate all other prominent women who publicly name their abusers — like Gamergate, but times tens of millions of participants, and gleefully endorsed by people all across American culture.” ——> https://www.vox.com/culture/23131538/johnny-depp-amber-heard-tiktok-snl-extremism
“ Culture critic Ella Dawson has a Twitter thread compiling reporting on the myriad ways in which this trial is not only destroying years of progress made against domestic abuse in the US, but also laying the groundwork for a culture in which bots and bad actors harass, vilify, and eviscerate all other prominent women who publicly name their abusers — like Gamergate, but times tens of millions of participants, and gleefully endorsed by people all across American culture.” ——> https://www.vox.com/culture/23131538/johnny-depp-amber-heard-tiktok-snl-extremism
That’s exactly correct. Gamergate at scale. These techniques were honed on 8chan and Reddit and now Twitter is helping.