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The Verge / T.C. Sottek
/ Mar 2“These bad faith attacks target what many newsrooms value: fairness and impartiality. But all reporters have opinions and feelings…By pretending to speak the language of editorial values, trolls and organized adversaries have baited newsroom leaders into failing to protect their reporters. The objective of online trolls and harassers is to have editorial organizations waste their time by trying to create wedges in their ranks, whether that’s by digging up old tweets or trying to rules-lawyer an organization’s social media policy. They want to intimidate us and have us disavow our colleagues. And they are using ‘fairness’ and ‘impartiality’ to do it. —
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ABC News,
David Wright,
Felicia Sonmez,
GamerGate,
objectivity,
Project Veritas
