Showing posts with label layoffs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label layoffs. Show all posts

Saturday, January 26, 2019

4Chan trolls laid off workers of HuffPo and BuzzFeed?

NBC News: Laid off HuffPo and BuzzFeed targeted by 4Chan?
The threats are part of a coordinated campaign organized on the far-right message board [4Chan].  Shortly after he tweeted the news of his own layoff, Nick Wing checked his inbox at HuffPost[.]
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Wing was one of many journalists who were let go by BuzzFeed and HuffPost this week and were sent death threats from trolls organizing their efforts on the far-right message board 4chan. Many of those targeted by the harassment campaign did not cover the far-right, including Wing, whose beat focused on inequality and guns.
I've been on Al Gore, Junior's Super Info Highway for a long time. Too long. I've never heard anyone describe 4Chan as a "far-right message board." To be fair and clear, I've never heard anyone refer to 4Chan having any political identity other than representing "all political voices". Is 4Chan "far-right"? Did I miss this all these years? Did you?