Racist trolls accuse wrong Asian woman of snapping photos of Rex Tillersons confirmation hearing no

[yuiyoshida]

Doris Truong, a homepage editor for The Washington Post, is currently being harassed by racist trolls after she was misidentified as another woman of Asian descent who was videotaped appearing to take photos of Rex Tillerson’s notes during his Senate confirmation hearing on Wednesday for Secretary of State.

Multiple right-wing blogs, including the Gateway Pundit, first started publishing the misinformation, sending the trolls into a fury. Some sites also suggested the woman in the video might be Inside Climate reporter Lisa Song, who is also Asian.

Truong was nowhere near Tillerson’s hearing when the video in question was recorded—in fact, she wrote in the Washington Post today, it was her day off from work. In Truong’s telling of events, she went to bed Wednesday evening not having looked at the internet all that much, only to wake the next morning to find that angry bigots had flooded multiple social media platforms with harassment.

(Video included at the website)

“Before I could do anything about it, someone had decided the woman was me,” Truong wrote in The Post. “No one ever bothered to contact me, but it was this post that Twitter seized upon overnight. A lot of the comments also focused on my Chinese heritage, implying — or outright stating — that I must be spying for China. Some called for an FBI investigation of what they deemed illegal behavior.”

While the online harassment of women, minorities, and members of the media isn’t a new phenomenon, the speed with which the right picked up on the allegations against Truong are dizzying and made all the more unsettling considering high-profile conservatives like Sarah Palin decided to share the false story.

As Jenn Fang pointed out on the blog Reappropriate, as is obvious to anyone with eyes, Truong and this (still unidentified) woman don’t look like one another. The barrage of nasty comments lodged at Truong and Song stem from the old, racist idea that all Asian people look alike.

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Here we go..."that all Asian people look alike"

[Archae]

1. It's Jim "Stupidest guy on the Internet" Hoft.

What did you expect?

[mainer]

2. video interview of Ms. Truong up on WP Facebook page

https://www.facebook.com/washingtonpost/videos/vb.6250307292/10154658222242293/?type=2&theater&notif_t=live_video_explicit&notif_id=1484341598898417

No matter who that woman was, even if she WAS snapping photos, it is a public hearing, there are cameras everywhere, and there is nothing illegal about taking a photo of any part of the room. If Tillerson left sensitive material on the table, then he's the one at fault. And judging by how far away she was standing from the papers on the desk, there'd be nothing to see on that camera.

Frankly, a good reporter WOULD be taking photos.