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On the internet, nobody knows you're a dog

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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.

Parker Molloy
Jun 20, 2022
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On the internet, nobody knows you're a dog

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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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