Troll uses twitter adverts to urge transgender people to kill themselves
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/may/20/troll-uses-twitter-adverts-to-urge-trans-people-to-kill-themselves
The Guardian/by Samuel Gibbs 05/20/2015
" Promoted tweet from fake account purporting to be that of Australian feminist campaigner inserts transphobic content into twitter user's timelines." " Twitter user's have expressed outrage at a troll's use of twitter's promoted tweets to insert abuse targeting transgender people into their feeds."
We seem to have sorted out the link problems, so I'm deleting all of the nonessential posts (I'll leave this one up).
As if some of us don't already cope with Suicidal Ideation on a daily basis - Arrrrrrgh!!!
What the... how obscene... and inciting, hope the global cops pick up on it!
what sort of a nutter is that!
A sad miserable nutter... you have to wonder why someone would go to that much trouble. Seems the woman whose account was faked was just as much a target.
Quote from: Ms Grace on May 20, 2015, 11:24:18 PM
A sad miserable nutter... you have to wonder why someone would go to that much trouble. Seems the woman whose account was faked was just as much a target.
Well you know what they say "The worst haters are closet cases themselves"... :-\
This is sick, I thought the twitter clampdown was going to clean things up. I guess I should return to being a pessimist