E.J. Dickson

She had a pretty high-profile experience with bullying when she was in high school.

She had a pretty high-profile experience with bullying when she was in high school.

She had a pretty high-profile experience with bullying when she was in high school.

So that was sort of like her origin story was that she was actually the victim of bullying. And at first she kind of has a pretty standard trajectory for somebody that's interested in communications. Like she got a journalism degree. She interned for Vogue. And it seems like politically she self-identified as feminist. fairly liberal.

So that was sort of like her origin story was that she was actually the victim of bullying. And at first she kind of has a pretty standard trajectory for somebody that's interested in communications. Like she got a journalism degree. She interned for Vogue. And it seems like politically she self-identified as feminist. fairly liberal.

So that was sort of like her origin story was that she was actually the victim of bullying. And at first she kind of has a pretty standard trajectory for somebody that's interested in communications. Like she got a journalism degree. She interned for Vogue. And it seems like politically she self-identified as feminist. fairly liberal.

But then what happens in 2016, she launches this company called Social Autopsy that essentially publishes like the online footprint of anonymous people online. The goal is to sort of hold bullies and trolls accountable. What we do is we attach their words to their places of employment and anybody in the entire world can search for them.

But then what happens in 2016, she launches this company called Social Autopsy that essentially publishes like the online footprint of anonymous people online. The goal is to sort of hold bullies and trolls accountable. What we do is we attach their words to their places of employment and anybody in the entire world can search for them.

But then what happens in 2016, she launches this company called Social Autopsy that essentially publishes like the online footprint of anonymous people online. The goal is to sort of hold bullies and trolls accountable. What we do is we attach their words to their places of employment and anybody in the entire world can search for them.

And a lot of people get really mad about it because they think it's like a doxing tool. What we are doing is figuratively lifting the masks up so nobody can hide behind, you know, Twitter handles or privatized profiles. This is around Gamergate. Doxing is very much like omnipresent in the culture. So she gets a lot of backlash for it.

And a lot of people get really mad about it because they think it's like a doxing tool. What we are doing is figuratively lifting the masks up so nobody can hide behind, you know, Twitter handles or privatized profiles. This is around Gamergate. Doxing is very much like omnipresent in the culture. So she gets a lot of backlash for it.

And a lot of people get really mad about it because they think it's like a doxing tool. What we are doing is figuratively lifting the masks up so nobody can hide behind, you know, Twitter handles or privatized profiles. This is around Gamergate. Doxing is very much like omnipresent in the culture. So she gets a lot of backlash for it.

And there are some major far right figures like Milo Yiannopoulos, if you remember that guy.

And there are some major far right figures like Milo Yiannopoulos, if you remember that guy.

And there are some major far right figures like Milo Yiannopoulos, if you remember that guy.

Yeah, and Mike Cernovich and they offer her their support and they defend her. And so she's kind of gets it into her head. It seems that like a lot of the backlash was led by leftists, which may or may not be true. But she said like them offering their support is kind of how she became radicalized, like virtually overnight.

Yeah, and Mike Cernovich and they offer her their support and they defend her. And so she's kind of gets it into her head. It seems that like a lot of the backlash was led by leftists, which may or may not be true. But she said like them offering their support is kind of how she became radicalized, like virtually overnight.

Yeah, and Mike Cernovich and they offer her their support and they defend her. And so she's kind of gets it into her head. It seems that like a lot of the backlash was led by leftists, which may or may not be true. But she said like them offering their support is kind of how she became radicalized, like virtually overnight.

So she launched her own YouTube channel, which got pretty popular.

So she launched her own YouTube channel, which got pretty popular.