On the internet, nobody knows you're a dog
Anonymity is good, but we have to be vigilant about bad actors exploiting it for the purpose of making groups look bad.
Back in 2014, right-wing trolls on 4chan came up with an idea: #EndFathersDay
To be clear, they didn’t actually want to “end” Father’s Day. Rather, they wanted people to think that feminists wanted to “end” Father’s Day. Their plan was simple: create a bunch of fake, feminist-looking Twitter accounts, flood the internet with tweets calling for the aboli…
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