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Title: Troll uses twitter adverts to urge transgender people to kill themselves
Post by: stephaniec on May 20, 2015, 07:42:26 PM
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."


Title: Re: Troll uses twitter adverts to urge transgender people to kill themselves
Post by: Arch on May 20, 2015, 10:50:30 PM
We seem to have sorted out the link problems, so I'm deleting all of the nonessential posts (I'll leave this one up).
Title: Re: Troll uses twitter adverts to urge transgender people to kill themselves
Post by: V M on May 20, 2015, 10:58:32 PM
As if some of us don't already cope with Suicidal Ideation on a daily basis - Arrrrrrgh!!!
Title: Re: Troll uses twitter adverts to urge transgender people to kill themselves
Post by: katrinaw on May 20, 2015, 11:07:13 PM
What the... how obscene... and inciting, hope the global cops pick up on it!

what sort of a nutter is that!

Title: Re: Troll uses twitter adverts to urge transgender people to kill themselves
Post by: 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.
Title: Re: Troll uses twitter adverts to urge transgender people to kill themselves
Post by: Charlotte2 on May 21, 2015, 01:28:13 PM
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"... :-\

Title: Re: Troll uses twitter adverts to urge transgender people to kill themselves
Post by: Jayne on May 21, 2015, 02:56:07 PM
This is sick, I thought the twitter clampdown was going to clean things up. I guess I should return to being a pessimist