Episode 164: A Can't-Look-Away Nightmare Involving A Sci-Fi Writer, A Maybe-Formerly-Racist Cybersecurity Expert, And, Somehow, A Cabal Of Online "Opie And Anthony" Fundamentalists (Part 1)

This week on the show, Katie Herzog tells Jesse Singal how a tweet about Norm MacDonald led to an unhinged five-year harassment campaign, and the woman trying to solve the mystery of who is behind it. Jackie Singh’s HackingButLegal.com Washington Examiner: “Senior Biden campaign cybersecurity expert participated in racist internet troll group” Weev on Singh aka Jax Jackie Singh: The Swedish Connection: Unraveling America’s Swatting Terror Vice News: “A Computer Generated Swatting Service Is Causing Havoc Across America” Encyclopedia Dramatica on Patrick Tomlinson Daily Beast:  “Internet Trolls Have Tormented This Sci-Fi Writer for Years—and He Can’t Stop Them” Patrick Tomlinson: “How Trolls Hack Twitter to Silence the Rest of Us”

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