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Into The Valley of The Trolls
Is growing online harassment just part of the job or should it be confronted? And when does it cross the line?
For most correspondents, it has become an unpleasant morning ritual: opening the laptop and wading through abusive tweets and mail. One of my recent articles, on Japan’s plunging press-freedom rankings provoked this response: “You’re anti-Japanese scum. Japan grows weaker because left-wing traitors here mix with the likes of you. Get out, moron.”
That’s mild compared to the slurs that percolate on the Twitter feeds of star reporters. Hiroko Tabuchi, former Tokyo correspondent for the New York Times, recalls a stream of invective laced with sexual and ethnic smears (see sidebar). Justin McCurry, Tokyo correspondent for the Guardian has been branded an “ultra-leftist North Korean spy” and repeatedly invited to “Fack off.”
Many reporters trudge the path taken by McCurry, from engagement to frustration, and resignation. “I have tried several different ways to deal with trolls, from snapping back to taking the time to dream up what, in my mind at least, is a rejoinder so withering that it will surely be the final word on the matter. It never is, of course.” Increasingly, he says, he reaches for the Twitter mute button: When tro
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Japan Twittergate: NYT reporter Hiroko Tabuchi, others have 1000s of fake followers
by Christopher Johnson
New York Times reporter Hiroko Tabuchi and other popular writers in Japan have thousands of fake followers on Twitter, an investigation has found.
A search on http://www.statuspeople.com found that Tabuchi and a number of her associates on Twitter had a higher percentage of fake or inactive followers than most other Twitter users.
A search on August 27 showed that of Tabuchi’s 63,686 followers at that time, only 64 percent could be confirmed as real people, not so-called “bots” or fake or inactive accounts. About 12 percent of Tabuchi’s followers (roughly 7500 followers) were fakes, and another 24 percent (about 15,000 followers) were inactive accounts, according to the site’s results. This indicates that in reality, Tabuchi only has about 40,000 real followers on Twitter, not 63,000 as claimed.
The results raise questions about Tabuchi’s credibility as a reporter for the New York Times, one of the world’s most respected sources for news. Tabuchi and New York Times editors have not replied to multiple requests for comments about Tabuchi’s behavior on Twitter.
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