Washington Post's homepage editor attacked by online trolls - and Sarah Palin - who think she...

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Washington Post’s homepage editor attacked by online trolls — and Sarah Palin — who think she was at the Rex Tillerson hearing

Doris Truong wasn't at the hearing. But that didn't stop right-wingers, who confused her with another Asian person

CHARLIE MAY

Turmoil, vilification, and falsehoods, continue to shape the political climate in the United States. On Wednesday, the latest instance of “fake news” sparked a real online controversy, putting an innocent editor in the middle of an online firing squad.

It started when a Twitter video surfaced of what appeared to be a woman taking pictures of Rex Tillerson’s notes during his Senate confirmation hearing.

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Naturally, the video spread like wildfire, leading to a witch hunt into who this person could have been — without context into who the woman in the video was, or why she may or may not have been taking these pictures in the first place.

But, before that information could even be brought to reasonable and proper questioning, trolls and right-wing vigilantes already determined that the culprit must meet her fate with justice. Both the video and the narrative continued to circulate like a game of telephone, eventually giving the criminal in question an identity. A fake identity.

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http://www.salon.com/2017/01/13/washington-posts-homepage-editor-attacked-by-online-trolls-and-sarah-palin-who-think-she-was-at-the-rex-tillerson-hearing/

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1. online trolls and Sarah Palin who think she

has more than one functioning brain cell.

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2. KICK

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3. Women: they all look the same to me!"