Washington Post Reporter Doxxed For Writing Critical Article About Bernie Sanders

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Washington Post Reporter Doxxed For Writing Critical Article About Bernie Sanders
by Alex Griswold | 1:29 pm, April 19th, 2016

Washington Post reporter Philip Bump faced a deluge of criticism on social media after he wrote an article that angered Bernie Sanders supporters, with one troll even posting his home address on Twitter.

Needless to say, they let Bump know how they felt. “By the end of the day, I’d received thousands of negative tweets, negative comments on Facebook, and any number of emails…” Bump wrote Tuesday. “Someone called my editor to complain. Someone else posted my home address on Twitter.”

“Neither I nor anyone else writing critically about Sanders deserves the sort of response that has been received,” he said. “No, Twitter isn’t life. But irrational fury that leads to abusive behavior isn’t the sort of thing that should be ignored.”

http://www.mediaite.com/print/washington-post-reporter-doxxed-for-writing-critical-article-about-bernie-sanders/

[GreatGazoo]

1. tell it to Susan Sarandon

[mmonk]

3. +1

[Nanjeanne]

4. Good one. But seriously in this day of social media and anonymous comments if

these people write and put something out there, why do they feel the need to complain when "people" respond. There are complainers everywhere. Some are professional trolls. Surely as a reporter with a newspaper, they can suck it up a little. What a bunch of crybabies. Too bad they aren't a woman and can't cry sexism.

[GreatGazoo]

6. Obviously the goal is to smear Sanders because, allegedly, random people

took it upon themselves to be rude online, maybe. Meanwhile what happened to Sarandon was gaslighting by professionals.

Their techniques are now so transparent they are obvious to all and the butt of jokes, panel #3 here:

[DemocratSinceBirth]

7. How do you dox a public figure ?

As I understand it to dox means to make the personal information of a private individual public.

[Fawke Em]

8. We don't often agree, but on this we do.

I posted the same below.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

9. I know of instances where the wrong person was doxed.

[Fawke Em]

12. Me, too.

Ruins people's lives.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

16. My friend had to take down his facebook page.

They called the wrong guy's boss.

How did he know?

Because the guy who doxed him was bragging but his boss wasn't called.

[Fawke Em]

19. Facebook is the evil.

You don't know how much easily attainable info is on there, even when you lock it down.

[Electric Monk]

2. ...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/12511776887#post11

[Fawke Em]

5. That's not being "doxxed."

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No wonder the WaPo is falling into the birdcage liner category. They don't understand today's lexicon.

Merely posting someone's home address isn't being doxed. That's not all that hard to find.

Merely complaining about someone's crappy article isn't being doxed. That's what happens when you're in the public eye.

Did they post his bank statements? No. His credit card numbers? No. Did they out his family? No.

God, WaPo - get with the times.

[nemo137]

11. Hold the phone, when did "not that hard to find" become the standard for doxxing?

Especially addresses, which are used for SWATTING and other, less likely to be deadly forms of harassment. Someone took the time to 1.) find his address and 2) publicize it, which I think is the textbook definition of doxxing. You can think that WaPo is the shilliest bunch of shills who ever shilled, but "doxxed" is certainly how I'd describe that.

[Fawke Em]

14. Not if he had a publicly listed address.

Remember old phone books? They're still alive on http://whitepages.com. You have to pay to be unlisted.

[yardwork]

15. You think it's ok to publish a reporter's home address?

Have you done that sort of thing?

[NurseJackie]

10. "Irrational fury" ... exactly.

[yardwork]

13. Childish babies.

[Fawke Em]

18. We are adults. We realize doing the same thing over and over and expecting

different results is a sign of insanity.

We're done with that, now.

[Romulox]

17. Washington Post has been shameless in its shilling for Clinton. It *used* to be a paper of record.

Now it's the plaything of a billionaire.