Those of us who pointed out that online harassment was politically motivated—compounded by race, gender, and sexual orientation—as I did in 2013, for example, were accused of being “professional victims” trying to leverage our paranoid delusions to censor the internet. That defamation has never been retracted or atoned for even after the revelations that an army of Russian Twitter bots functions as the Trump administration’s propaganda wing and the alt-right, essentially a coalition of antifeminist, white supremacist online harassment campaigns, recruits angry young men to Trumpism by framing
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