back in 2016 -- as soon as editors started greedily gobbling up the pitches from lazy freelancers -- DM'ing with extremely online racists became synonymous with "journalism"pic.twitter.com/hXC5U5nNKs
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So would they just DM some random anonymous account that used racial slurs and had a pepe frog picture and that would be their story?
Yep. I wrote two such stories for VICE. I talked to Ricky Vaughn, the Twitter reactionary, on Twitter for many hours across several days. I quickly realized this was why I needed to get back to the world of 9 to 5 work ... I didn't want to hustle this kind of material
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And yeah I don't blame you for not wanting to give those types a platform. I think you're spot on that some of the fluff pieces they get only encourage them
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Yes, and some may be insignificant and not at all dangerous if left alone ... just odd, nerdy recluses. But if platformed, they can become a danger
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I was one of the original people banging on editorial doors telling them to cover this (hence my being on a BBC show with Milo) and then as soon as I saw the resulting coverage, I wrote a long essay for
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Oh yeah that's right, I do remember that and also you wrote a great article on Milo too about how he was a failed artist and all that as well
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