The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has used its Trending online ‘bureau’ to attack a female, “right wing” Twitter user, going so far as to publish the woman’s personal details including her town of residence and her husband’s employment details.
The blog, by former Guardian, and Al Jazeera contributor Olivia Crellin, is entitled “The woman who shows how toxic America’s culture wars have become”. It asks “why a ‘happy wife’ with ‘paleoconservative’ political views [is] a near-constant topic of conversation on Twitter” and describes Andie Pauly, the woman in question, as “an illustrated example of America’s deep divisions, and the anger that flares up between left and right.”
The begins with pretence of neutrality: “To her critics, she’s a racist troll who harasses her opponents, and she offers rewards to those who dox – reveal personal information about – her enemies. To her defenders, she’s a proud conservative standing up for free speech, and a victim of online abuse and harassment herself.”
Then Ms. Crellin launches into an all-out hit job: “She defends gun ownership and the police, and criticises President Obama, abortion and the Black Lives Matter movement. Many of her tweets use blunt or vulgar language”, illustrating her points with screenshots of some of Ms. Pauly’s “extreme messages” including one complaining that the media had ignored a story of an elderly white man being killed by “feral black teens”. ...
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