Sarah Jeong @Sarah Jeong
I’ve had a really good time on here. I’ve also had a really bad time on here lol
The first tweet was already unsettling. It was a composite image of things I’d said — largely dug up from five years earlier — screencaps of posts with tiny archive links appended to each one. Out of context, some of my old posts looked bad. The bulk were obviously jokes. Most of them were about white people.
Then came another tweet. And another. It became a flood of tweets, nearly all with the same composite image being tweeted and retweeted. It was a coordinated online harassment campaign, the kind that Twitter was uniquely good at powering.
I was fair game because The New York Times had just announced that I was being hired as a...