Tumblr mob tries to get woman fired for racist Facebook posts ... but her ex faked them

[Newsjock]

Source: Gawker

It's a well-known fact that unsourced, unverifiable, anonymous Tumblr posts are an agent of social progress and meaningful change. So it's surprising that some prick used "Racists Getting Fired," an enormously popular new web attraction, to smear his ex.

The premise of RGF is simple, and a perfectly representative product of 2014 Internet: send screenshots of people saying racist shit on Facebook or Twitter to their employers, get them canned, and thus end American racism, or something. This is foolproof until someone uses the formula to frame someone who didn't actually say anything racist. Take name redacted, who apparently said some terrible things on Facebook.

But according to the operators of the RGF Tumblr, this turned out to in fact not be name redacted at all, but her ex-boyfriend, who changed his Facebook profile to resemble hers.

Before the site realized the trick and issued something resembling a correction, the name redacted smear racked up tens of thousands of reblogs and notes and prompted readers to bombard the real name redacted's workplace with phone calls and tweets. Probably because RGF provided instructions on doing this exactly. AMC Theaters provided a statement defending name redacted, but how many rabid Tumblr detectives read this?

Read more: http://gawker.com/psycho-frames-ex-with-fake-racist-facebook-posts-1665418226

[AverageJoe90]

1. Whatta fuckin' asshole.

I hope she sues that douche of ex-boyfriend.....fuckin' A, man.

[Jake Stern]

2. What do you expect from a bunch of cowards who cloak themselves in anonimity

No proof other than a screenshot and they're off.

Amusing how they'll blast an innocent person's name and data across the net but are too chickenshit to put their own names out there.

[AngryAmish]

3. Luckily, DU is completely immune to this.