Posted on 08/17/2024 2:20:52 AM PDT by george76
The New York Times said it took disciplinary action against a reporter who acknowledged leaking data about a WhatsApp group chat for Jewish business people that led to its members being doxxed and harassed by activists sympathetic to Palestinians.
Natasha Frost, a Times reporter who was based in Melbourne, Australia, earlier this year, downloaded and shared 900 pages of content from the private WhatsApp chat that was launched by Jewish professionals in response to the Oct. 7 attacks by Hamas terrorists that claimed the lives of nearly 1,200 Israelis.
Frost acknowledged to the Wall Street Journal that she shared the information .
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Hundreds of the group chat participants were then shocked to discover that their personal information was circulating online — leading to online and in-person harassment that escalated to the point where some were forced to leave their homes.
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Days before the story went live, Frost left the WhatsApp group. Soon afterward, details from the group chat appeared on various websites and were widely shared among pro-Palestinian internet users.
A spreadsheet was created that listed the names, photographs, job titles and quotes from the WhatsApp group.
One of the WhatsApp group members, Joshua Moshe, said he and his wife started receiving threatening phone calls and emails calling them baby-killers and genocidal maniacs.
They also received a text message showing a photo of their 5-year-old son.
Moshe’s gift shop in Melbourne was vandalized with graffiti and stickers of crossed-out Israeli flags urging would-be customers to boycott the store.
Moshe ended up shuttering his shop. He then took his wife and child and left their neighborhood.
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The increasing use of online platforms to harm people through practices like doxxing, the malicious release of their personal information without their permission, is a deeply disturbing development,”
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
I think we need to understand when the headline is “Leaked” information, the sensitive information was not accidentally leaked or stolen by hackers, the information was intentionally given to people who had the intention of harassing the participants in the group chat.
Liberal white women opening the door for barbarians. Where have I seen this before?
We're waiting!
Of course the correct answer is FIRED
Frost is USUALLY a Jewish name. WHY would she do something like this??
The whole affair caused a great stir in Australia.
“Frost is USUALLY a Jewish name. WHY would she do something like this??”
She be of the self loathing type and this gives her cred in all the most loathsome circles. Reading the article it appears she was a member of the Jewish chat group. She left the group, and released the info. She should be sued into oblivion as Jewish Australians have been harassed to t he point of leaving their homes. Then again Australians have been neutered by the left. I doubt there will be repercussions.
BTTT
Just like they do with concealed carry lists.
It’s any issue the left wants to damage, Jew, guns, meat production, etc., they “leak” private information except the information isn’t “leaked “ it’s intentionally given to media outlets with the intent to harm people and support the liberal agenda
The misnamed liberals favorite excuse;
“It was an accident.”
The misnamed liberals favorite excuse;
“It was an accident.”
Womens Sports?
Reminds me of how phone records were used in Germany during the 30s to identify and round up “enemies of the state.”
Hamas/Hezbollah/Iran and their supporters are already at war WITH US, and most people (especially their useful idiots on campus and in (anti)Social Media), don’t quite GET that yet.
Perhaps condign punishment would be to drop her off by helicopter in one of those areas so she can experience their attitudes towards western white women first hand.
Self loathing Northern Europe.
AWFL
I heard it was fifty lashes with a wet noodle.
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