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Even if you think Vox is mostly good (as I do), if there's one thing I've learned from being involved in lawsuit, harassment, doxxing etc - do not trust media to protect you. Their job is clicks. I have placed trust in journalists/reporters who endangered me. Don't fill this out. https://twitter.com/Laur_Katz/status/1272634955651330048
Some examples:
After I was doxxed on 8chan and received rape threats accompanied by gore pics and screencaps of my apartment on Google streetview, a reporter illegally obtained my cell phone number from unrelated records.
After I was doxxed on 8chan and received rape threats accompanied by gore pics and screencaps of my apartment on Google streetview, a reporter illegally obtained my cell phone number from unrelated records.
They called me incessantly which was extremely scary and unnerving during that time, because the people trying to terrorize me hadn't obtained my cell number. When I asked to complain to their editor, she told me "you made yourself into a story"
There was another reporter who I actually followed and trusted, who asked if she could quote me about some harassment I'd been experiencing on Twitter, in a story she was doing. I told her, yes, but I don't want to be named/have my tweets featured and she said okay.
I told her this was because I didn't want more harassment. Later she published a 'story' that was literally just embeds of my tweets, the exact thing I asked her not to do, and didn't tell me.
During a story about my stalking incident, I did a televised interview on NBC Bay Area where they agreed to show me only in shadow/silhouette. They asked me to meet them outside my neighborhood so I wouldn't be publicizing where I live,
And I specifically sent instructions saying not to let on which neighborhood I was in. The televised story named the restaurant my stalker called me and asked me to meet him at, and said it was on my block. I forwarded correspondence to their producers who agreed
That the reporter had violated my EXPLICIT requests and put me in real, potential danger.
One of the only journalists whom I've worked with who I felt was respectful and considerate of this was @ElloEllenOh, and I'm still grateful for that and very into the work that @reveal has done - it's real journalism, not clickbait, which often has zero regard for the subjects.
Just, please be cautious. I initially assumed that people who wanted to tell my story, who thought it was important, would automatically be considerate about putting me at increased risk. I quickly learned that was not the case. I wish someone had warned me.
