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[Playsage]

Rogen has tweeted a screen of DMs he sent to Donald Trump Jr. (for context https://youtu.be/HLyTqtxGEKk?t=1m4s)

https://mobile.twitter.com/Sethrogen/status/918493254256963584

Soon after he got swarmed by people of "a certain side of today's political debate" reposting tweets from an account known as Dana Jade where this woman was openly accusing him of harassing her.
The account was banned after being confirmed it was a bot (apparently the account was made just to attack him)

Are there other ongoing examples of this?

 

[Kensation]

In today's installment of "Twitter Was a Mistake"....

 

[Earthstrike]

There's going to be a long list. Basically, anyone who attacks the right in any kind of impactful, public way will have bullshit thrown at them.

 

[diaspora]

24 tweets with the account being created a week ago.

 

[Shadow Puppetry]

Of course the stupid right believed it lol

 

[Isaac Otherworld]

So the people who constantly scream about how scared they are of false accusations immediately start throwing false accusations at someone because they want to silence them? Shocking.

 

[BlueTsunami]

24 tweets with the account being created a week ago.

Lmao at what seems to be a 4chan screencap?

And Twitter is garbage. For all the potential benefits it provides, its bad in equal measures.

 

[Frozenprince]

And this is why people don't come forward. Shits already being used as a political weapon against people.

 

[Shadow Puppetry]

Lmao at what seems to be a 4chan screencap?

And Twitter is garbage. For all the potential benefits it provides, its bad in equal measures.

One of the tweets:
Just looking at Twitter stupidity hurts.

 

[Azuran]

Are you telling me the right is harassing people with made up accusations?

 

[richiek]

I would not be surprised at all if the Russians were involved.

 

[Crossing Eden]

 

[Permanently A]

Wow, that's dangerous as fuck. I can see those guys also hijacking the "you must believe the woman or you're sexist" line of thought to fuel false accusations. Wow. This is fucking insidious.

 

[Puck Beaverton]

Sounds about right. World sucks. Twitter sucks.

 

[Crimson_Echidna]

So the people who constantly scream about how scared they are of false accusations immediately start throwing false accusations at someone because they want to silence them? Shocking.

That's the real surreal thing. The same group constantly crying about "false flags" and all that jazz.

 

[Saint Gregory]

That's the real surreal thing. The same group constantly crying about "false flags" and all that jazz.

Well projection is a real thing.

 

[danthefan]

Twitter is a cesspit. A lot of people are coming forward with stories of harassment and abuse and they're getting mixed in with this rubbish.

 

[giga]

Twitter was a mistake.

 

[Gentleman Jack]

Russian propaganda farms continuing to use twitter as their primary vector? Mild Shock.

 

[Always-honest]

Yep, there will be a lot of this the coming weeks

 

[dani_dc]

Unfortunately I expect more false accusations to come, to both discredit the movement as well as to attack particular people.

Hopefully they'll all be has obvious as this one.

 

[entremet]

Yeah, this is pandora's box of using Twitter for this stuff.

There's a fine balance between given others a platform to voice harassment and then that being weaponized by bots.

 

[brawly]

Why play the father card? It's Donald fucking Trump.

 

[Ithil]

That's the real surreal thing. The same group constantly crying about "false flags" and all that jazz.

They project everything. Everything.

I can't emphasize it enough.

 

[MetroidPrimeRib]

Yep as soon as this stuff started to bubble up something fierce I knew it would be co opted immediately by the altright and bots. It's dangerous because it's made to discredit accusations while also saying if you don't believe these obvious fake accusations from fake people you are denying all women coming forward. Sinister.

 

[neorej]

How utterly predictable.

 

[Snaku]

Twitter was a mistake.

Social media was a fucking mistake.

 

[Spyder_Monkey]

I'd much rather live in Black Mirror.

 

[Frozenprince]

Yeah, this is pandora's box of using Twitter for this stuff.

There's a fine balance between given others a platform to voice harassment and then that being weaponized by bots.

I don't think the line is that thin for something like weaponizing sexual assault against vulnerable women and men

 

[Palette Swap]

All these all American troll jobs offshored to Russia.

 

[Sami+]

The world would be vastly better off if all these people just dropped dead tbh. Sickening.

 

[Ri'Orius]

I don't think the line is that thin for something like weaponizing sexual assault against vulnerable women and men

It can be very hard to distinguish from the outside. This time it was obvious, but it can't be hard to build up a reasonable-looking account over the course of a couple years before detonating it...

 

[Shig]

And of course Milogiannis is being cited as a news source in there. Of course.

I don't know how these people function, with a brain that can't identify such a blatant shit-stirrer for what he is.

 

[rokkerkory]

Need to deactivate my twitter acct

 

[Doctoglethorpe]

That's the real surreal thing. The same group constantly crying about "false flags" and all that jazz.

They really believe it, so they figure they should fight fire with fire. I think a lot of people don’t realize that. These people aren’t self aware of their hypocrisy, they think everyone cheats and plays dirty so them doing it not really cheating, it’s just leveling the playing field, that it’s fair. False flags, fake news, orchestrated mobbing, etc, they don’t have the mental capacity to understand that anything that goes against them is legitimate, everything is a conspiracy against them so they must conspire to beat it. Theyre absolutely fucking crazy.

 

[Maxim726X]

Man, Twitter really is fucking garbage isn't it?

If you're a celebrity, just don't have one. Gives you one less avenue to deal with bullshit.

 

[G.O.O.]

So we can expect a wave of false accusations from the alt-right in the next few days, in order to present the real ones as unreliable. That's the most important thing I'm reading from this.

 

[Ithil]

So we can expect a wave of false accusations from the alt-right in the next few days, in order to present the real ones as unreliable. That's the most important thing I'm reading from this.

No, they won't present the real ones as unreliable because Weinstein is more associated with the democrats, so it's ammo for them. That's why all the accusations against Trump were blanket denied by them, while these are being used as a basis for made up accusations against any celeb who is against Trump.

They have absolutely zero empathy or morality so there is no level they won't stoop to. What's more, they think everyone else is like them and that they're "just doing what the other side is doing" even though they're the only ones doing all this amoral false flag bullshit.

 

[Wet Bloodfart]

I know it seems a petty form of comeuppance towards Twitter, but I’ve finally deleted Twitter from my phone as a result of the boycott the other day. It feels great to be removed from such a toxic, reactionary platform. And honestly, GAF suffers from the same instant reactionary language and behavior. Measured responses are needed during this time in our lives.

I encourage everyone to bail on Twitter as a start though.

 

[Volimar]

It's not Twitter, it's people. If it wasn't Twitter it'd be Facebook or instagram or tumblr. As long as people can have that kind of instant access to mass attention, there will be assholes who use it for their own ends. And sometimes those ends mean despicable agendas.


Let's not forget that Terry Crews used Twitter to share his story, and even after her idiotic ban, Rose McGowan continues to use hers to fight. So yes it gives shitheads a chance to cause harm, but it gives everyone else the platform to fight the harm and support each other.

 

[ItWasMeantToBe19]

It's not Twitter, it's people. If it wasn't Twitter it'd be Facebook or instagram or tumblr. As long as people can have that kind of instant access to mass attention, there will be assholes who use it for their own ends. And sometimes those ends mean despicable agendas.


Let's not forget that Terry Crews used Twitter to share his story, and even after her idiotic ban, Rose McGowan continues to use hers to fight. So yes it gives shitheads a chance to cause harm, but it gives everyone else the platform to fight the harm and support each other.

Twitter is legitimately trash though.

There are verified Pizzagaters.

 

[FiggyCal]

It is kind of harassment. He doesn't really think Don Jr would denounce his own father, does he?

 

[Nitsuj23]

It is kind of harassment. He doesn't really think Don Jr would denounce his own father, does he?

That's harassment to you? I'm curious to see what you call actual harassment.

Politely asking someone to do something you think they won't do is now harassment to some people? Jesus.

Furthermore, DT Jr. follows him. He can easily unfollow to stop receiving messages. It's his choice to receive private messages from Seth.

 

[Sou Da]

Russian propaganda farms continuing to use twitter as their primary vector? Mild Shock.

I would not be surprised at all if the Russians were involved.

Quit painting with a broad brush here, that account is very clearly a personal account of some /pol/ reject who very quickly and sloppily changed the avatar to a woman once they got marching orders to harass Rogen.

 

[Nitsuj23]

Quit painting with a broad brush here, that account is very clearly a personal account of some /pol/ reject who very quickly and sloppily changed the avatar to a woman once they got marching orders to harass Rogen.

I doubt it's a Russian too, but what's stopping a Russian from having a personal account on /pol/? That has nothing to do with the origin of the account.

 

[jroc74]

I'm so fucking sick of ignorant ppl in this country.

 

[Sou Da]

I doubt it's a Russian too, but what's stopping a Russian from having a personal account on /pol/? That has nothing to do with the origin of the account.

Just always been uncomfortable with the terms used, the Russian "troll farms" had names. It's not a big deal.

 

[JCHandsom]

Wow, that's dangerous as fuck. I can see those guys also hijacking the "you must believe the woman or you're sexist" line of thought to fuel false accusations. Wow. This is fucking insidious.

That's low, even for them.

Actually, not really, it's par for the course.

 

[chekhonte]

I'm kind of done with an open, free, anonymous internet.

 

[UrokeJoe]

I'm kind of done with an open, free, anonymous internet.

Yeah Gaf is such a terrible place huh Mr. Wilbur Right.