High Anxiety at CNN Amid Attacks From Trump and His Trolls

[applegrove]

LLOYD GROVE at the Daily Beast

http://www.thedailybeast.com/high-anxiety-at-cnn-amid-attacks-from-trump-and-his-trolls

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Maybe the pugnacious Cuomo is comfortable, but others at the cable network are increasingly apprehensive about death threats and other harassing messages targeting on-air anchors and top executives being sent on social media and harassing phone calls.

The parents and wife of Andrew Kaczynski, author of the GIF story and leader of CNN’s investigative K-File team, had received around 50 harassing phone calls each by Wednesday while other K-File team members had ugly messages—apparently from Trump supporters—left at their homes.

“The only thing I worry about is somebody getting hurt,” a CNN insider told The Daily Beast, speaking on condition of anonymity because this person is not authorized to discuss internal network operations. “These far-right trolls are really threatening people and coming after people. Somebody’s gonna do something stupid at some point.

“People really, really worry about the safety of all the prominent people who represent us on the air, and the people who are breaking news they don’t like, or people in senior management…I fear for all of them.”

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[Eliot Rosewater]

1. Deplorables are never going to stop and will get worse and more bold.

Their "daddy" has told them the news is fake and unpatriotic, that is all they needed to hear.

These dumb fucks will harm people, no doubt about it.

Our DOJ will stand by and watch.

[Demtexan]

2. Maybe it is time to fight back.

Get some lawyers.

[TheBlackAdder]

10. Exactly, death threats, arrest those mfers.

[Demtexan]

11. Start tracing them down and press charges.

Enough is enough.

[rockfordfile]

3. Sounds like typical un-American right-wing extremist.

[Qutzupalotl]

4. Makes me think the rumor about CNN holding a damaging story at Mueller's request

is true...

[Not Ruth]

5. Team Patriot reports that CNN has tapes and transcripts providing irrefutable proof of 2 counts

Of Trump treason. Mueller asked them to keep it on the DL for now. That is apparently why Trump is going after them. The Washington Post and another MSM outlet also have the same deal with Mueller.

[gordianot]

6. Right now holding back is a good idea.

When the hammer strikes Trump has some easy distractions to stoke fear. Republicans fear 2018 elections and fallout from their healthcare debacle. A storm is brewing.

[Not Ruth]

25. After tonight's Rachel

I believe that Rachel Maddow is GLOMARing TEAM PATRIOT to vet with their own sources, because Trump may have catfished Mueller, CNN, Washington Post and another MSM with the 2 count treason tapes.

[Not Ruth]

31. A warning to media

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10029296125#post12

[Not Ruth]

32. Claude Taylor seems miffed at Rachel Maddow

"as if"

Link to tweet

[Not Ruth]

33. Claude Taylor digs in

Link to tweet

[Not Ruth]

39. Confirmation that Washington Post is sitting on Trump treason tape story for reasons.....

Link to tweet

[Not Ruth]

40. CNN may have been catfished by Trump, but Washington Post transcripts are still solid

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

[octoberlib]

7. They were targeted by Daily Stormer trolls

Daily Stormer Troll Army Threatens CNN Staffers Over Reddit User Behind Trump/CNN GIF



Andrew Auernheimer, the notorious hacker and Internet troll known as ‘Weev,’ rallied the neo-Nazi Daily Stormer’s troll army for its latest campaign this morning, claiming that CNN was blackmailing a “teen shitposter.”

“Just like CNN tracked down this child and used media exposure as a bludgeon against him for posting (truthful and funny) things that they don’t like, we are going to begin tracking down their families as a bludgeon against them for publishing (seditiously fraudulent) things that we don’t like,” wrote Auernheimer. “CNN, this is your one singular chance to walk back this behavior of public blackmail. You have one week to fix this.”

Auernheimer’s list of demands includes the public firing of the KFile team, a denouncement of their alleged threats, a $50,000 college scholarship for HanAssholeSolo, and a public assurance that “he and his family will never be harmed by your organization.”

The only problem: HanAssholeSolo is an adult, according to CNN.

“We are going to track down your parents. We are going to track down your siblings. We are going to track down your spouses. We are going to track down your children. Because hey, that’s what you guys get to do, right? We’re going to see how you like it when our reporters are hunting down your children,” continued Auernheimer.

Auernheimer instructed CNN employees that do not want to be doxed to quit within the week and denounce the organization’s alleged blackmail.

“We didn’t make these rules – you did – and now we’re going to force you to play by them. Hope you enjoy what is coming, you filthy rat k*** bastards. Kill yourselves, k*** news fakers. You deserve every single bit of what you are about to get,” concluded Auernheimer.


The call to "kill the lying mass of shit that is CNN" posted to 4chan's politically incorrect forum, /pol/.
Within hours, personal information for multiple CNN staffers and their family members -- alongside images and gifs of individuals with CNN superimposed over their faces being shot in the head -- appeared in the comments of the posting.


https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2017/07/05/daily-stormer-troll-army-threatens-cnn-staffers-over-reddit-user-behind-trumpcnn-gif

[AngryAmish]

12. Daily Stormer is one thing. /pol/ is a whole other deal.

A hundred thousand shut-ins with nothing to do but fuck with your life.

I may not believe in /pol/, but I fear them.

[octoberlib]

14. I've never been on 4chan. I take it the /pol/ forum is all Trump supporters?

[AngryAmish]

18. No. Many are. Many National Socialists / Nazi. Some tankies.

But for every MAGA jagoff there are some terrifyingly smart/autistic kids with no boundaries and complete digital natives. They have discovered ISIS posts on twitter, used metadata and Google maps and found the ISIS cell. Then the Russian lads there called up a cousin in the Russian Air Force and called in an air strike.

Makes "Let's DU this poll" sound really dumb.

[underpants]

15. Good grief

That's horrible

[tblue37]

29. Aren't some of those things (like the gifs, for example) terroristic threats & thus illegal? nt

[ProudLib72]

8. These assholes need to be put in prison

on a work crew, out in the heat and humidity of a southern state, cleaning up trash. Sap their energy and they won't feel the need to threaten, just sleep.

[wildeyed]

9. It's a horrible thing that is happening.

That said, CNN enabled the crap out the man during the elections. Guess he is less entertaining when you are the focus of his bullying and harassment.

[orangecrush]

27. Yup

[kentuck]

13. WTF !

Have these nuts turned violent?

[Beartracks]

16. Haven't you heard? It's libruls who are violent! Librulszz!!11!

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[tenderfoot]

17. And a few trolls here defending Reddit/4chan trolls and their threats of violence.

[The Wizard]

19. They really believe Trumple4skin

will pay their legal expenses. Don't pick up the soap boys.

[Ccarmona]

20. All It Would Take is One Right-Winger to Tell the Trolls

To calm the fuck down. And I also believe in Unicorns and Good Fairies that will grant me one wish.

[Initech]

22. Ha ha ha... you can't calm down a mob.

And the leaders of said mob - Mike Cernovich and Jack Posobiec - are getting rich off creating said mobs. They don't care who they hurt along the way as long as it gets their name in the press.

[Initech]

21. What those fucking assholes in the alt right did the other day was beyond despicable.

They call us "the loony violent left" but when that whole story broke, I have never seen that kind of hate speech and violent threats aimed at CNN and that was truly horrible. I have never seen that kind of hate speech being allowed to run rampant. Trump and his thugs are going to get someone hurt or killed over his constant attacking of the press. This is completely unconstitutional.

[applegrove]

23. Yes. But I think it is because the right wing bloggers and data people

are now under investigation regarding Russian interference in the election.

[Initech]

36. I was more concerned with the two douchebags who stormed the play and got it shut down.

Because they were paid Infowars protesters and part of some bizarre contest created by Mike Cernovich, and kept yelling CNN Is ISIS, and calling the actors Nazis. The idea that the play was linked to the Steve Scalise shooting is a GOP talking point that was cooked up by Donald Trump Jr in an effort to link all liberals to the shooting. And it was a very poor attempt at that.

[Initech]

38. Donald Trump Jr absolutely said that.

He tweeted that exact talking point the day of the shooting. Calling our side "anti Trump propaganda" is exactly playing into what they want.

[hamsterjill]

24. This has to be taken seriously.

It goes without saying that no one wants anyone harmed. Threats like this must be taken seriously and I hope the idiots making them are caught and spend time in jail.

Intimidation must not silence the free press.

[orangecrush]

26. The F.B.I.

Knows how to handle this.

Once one of them is caught, this shit will stop.

[hurple]

28. Time to start calling them exactly what they are

TERRORISTS

They're not trolls, they are radical republican terrorists, and they want to destroy western democracy.

[AgadorSparticus]

30. CNN and its parent co. needs tostep up to the plate and go after these people doing the harassing

They need to go after them LEGALLY and try to prosecute. Just take them to court. Make them get legal representation. You can't let bullies continue to bully. You have to stand up to them.

Grrrrrr..... we need to fight back!!

[spanone]

34. what country do we live in? where a 'president' encourages violence...sad & sick