I don't talk about it often because I use twitter mostly for BTS and not real life.

But, I thought I'd share some wisdom/experience from my work.

As some of you may know I used to be a prosecutor and I currently work as an investigator.
As a prosecutor, I reviewed evidence to determine whether someone was guilty of a crime and whether there was enough evidence to proceed to trial.

As an investigator, I do the same thing, I examine the evidence to determine whether an Act or statute has been breached.
I bring this up because lately, I've noticed an increase in "expose threads" attacks on fanbases, translators, and just regular fan accounts.

I've seen accusations of people/accounts being "antis" with little to no proof or if proof is offered it is unreliable at best.
So, I thought I'd offer some tips to help avoid mistakes or spreading false rumors.

The first tip is:

Don't believe anyone (and I mean anyone, even me or big fanbases) without examining the evidence and doing your own research.
Second tip:

Ask for receipts and if you get them make sure they include the whole conversation. If you are given screenshots that seem to only include a reply to another comment that is not included, try to find the original thread.
Context matters and while there can still be misunderstandings as to what the person actually meant even with the whole conversation, it is always better to have the full context.
Tip #3:

Don't assume you know what the person intended to say.

We tend to assume a person's meaning based on our own experiences, but, because everyone has different experiences, that may not be what a person intended to say.
This is especially important online because of the broad range of people you will interact with, many of whom do not speak English as a first language and come from extremely different cultural backgrounds.

Added to this is the difficulty with accurately reading sarcasm in text.
Tip # 4:

Question everything and consider ALL the possibilities. Think to yourself, what other interpretations of this could there be? Examine the person's account, does the original interpretation make sense based on the other things they have tweeted.
Ex:

Person replies: "I hate him so much" under a twt about X.

They could a) actually hate X or b) be joking.

If you look at their account and it is filled with tweets talking about how amazing and talented X is and how much they love them, then option a) is likely, not true.
Tip #5:

If you aren't sure if someone is an anti, but you dislike what they said, then just block them and move on.

If you have moots who follow them and you think they need to know, then DM them and let them make their own decision.

Not every bad twt needs an expose thread.
Every year there are more and more people who are trying to bring BTS down and they know the best way to do that (and the only way to be honest) is to divide and distract ARMYs.

If we are fighting or stop trusting each other and our fanbases, then we aren't focusing on BTS.
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