Posted on 05/20/2022 6:50:22 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
WASHINGTON (AP) — Nina Jankowicz, like so many millennials, was excited to share a social media post announcing her new job on Twitter late last month when she was named executive director for a new disinformation board established by the Department of Homeland Security.
But instead of well-wishes, Jankowicz’s tweet set off a torrent of sexist profanities across social media and menacing emails filled with rape or death threats that continue to follow her even after she resigned from that new job on Wednesday morning following the disastrous rollout of the program.
It’s a familiar scenario.
A crush of online harassment, stalking and abuse has driven dozens of women around the globe from powerful positions. The speed and unchecked virulence of the attacks show another way that social media can serve as an accelerant to sowing discord.
“This type of silencing and terrorizing are global, sadly, and unsurprising,” said Danielle Citron, a law professor at the University of Virginia who studies online privacy and hate crimes. “It is a playbook. And it’s downright scary.”
Female politicians, regardless of political affiliation, are subjected to 10 times more abusive messages on Twitter, including hate speech that sometimes suggested the women kill themselves. The online abuse, the U.N. concluded in its report, prevents democracies from being equally representative.
For her part, Jankowicz said Wednesday she won’t be “silenced” by the online harassment and it was not the final provocation that led to her resignation.
But it had a similar effect.
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This article is disinformation
mUh dEaTh tHrEaTs
Being famous is hawrd.
Being rich is awesome, but being famous is a pain.
Childish, petulant, cynical, thin skinned, vindictive, dishonest.
Do these leftist have a single redeeming quality? I can’t think of one.
1. This woman is an evil, lying commie.
2. I don’t believe a word she says about anything.
3. America need not have and should not have a Ministry of Truth.
Sic Semper Tyrannis
No person, woman or otherwise, should *ever* possess such a "powerful position" as minister of propaganda.
First mistake - she took the job. (read that in Riddick's voice) The whole idea is so thoroughly un-American and anti-freedom, anti-liberty it is confounding how anyone this side of Stalin or Goring would think it is a good idea.
...she resigned from that new job on Wednesday morning following the disastrous rollout of the program...
Good. Maybe she came to her senses and realized what a horrible idea the whole thing is. Also, after a "disastrous rollout" of anything it shows the "executive director" does not know what he or she is doing and should be fired or resign.
Funny, I don’t remember the ap,doing any stories about Trump or any number of conservatives getting harassed. Tucker carlson faces death threats constantly, but he didn’t whine aboutmit and quit his job. A fella tried to murder Steve scalise, and he didn’t quit, another tried to murder rand Paul, and he didn’t quit. And rand faces threats all the time. He and hismwife Was efen stalked on the street once during the riots once.
Who,are all,these women stalked and driven from powerful positions ap? If you are gonna make a claim like that then back it up with facts. Did you just try slipping some disinformation past your readers ap?
This crAPhound is howling because she expected a jerb at The Ministry. FUAP, FUAS.
Welcome to the party.
They haven’t seen online abuse like any on Trump’s team did. Sounds like the “Mary Poppins” wannabe was too weak to withstand it.
I weep for her. Then, I go on Twitter and post publicly that “Marriage is between one man and one woman for life,” see the reaction from the hyenas there, and I stop weeping for her. The abuse from the maniac left is orders of magnitude louder and more vituperative than anything this woman faced.
Amanda Seitz (D-AP) makes this sound like Nina Jankowicz is a 13 year old girl in the 7th grade ....
If you say you are a Red Sox fan, don't wear your Yankees jersey everywhere. And don't cry when everyone posts pictures of you in your Yankees jersey.
mainstream media (which is already under government/political control) and their government masters LOVE to portray “the internet” (which is not yet under their control) as a cesspool of hate, mysogeny and racism - any chance they get
This fake narrative is how they are going to get Americans to agree to outright censorship and government control.
“Disinformation board’s ex-leader faced planned wave of online abuse.
This would normally find this entire situation hysterical and full of gut-busting laughter if it were not so Orwellian. The all out effort by that bitch and the media to project her mentality, intended methods and goals onto us is beyond disturbing and infuriating, and yet despite the fact that nobody is buying into it or even cares about it the still keep spewing crap in her defense.
Welcome to the party, pal! We’ve been living that life since forever
Nah. Republicans just want to date her. 😂🙌
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