Some unknown menanist gave birth to the thought bot. It found every sex worker with a payment service, press or link to it and collected them in one big groupso they could copy and paste all the names for pay pal. One woman i spoke to said shead received hundreds of death threats as well as harassing messages. All these women had their accounts that they used for work frozen and had hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars taken away from them by payment companies. The thought bought takes advantage of the way most companies have designed their moderation in anti harassment tools. They just don't have enough people on staff to review each and every harassment report that comes in on a imly manner
After Meghan Daum’s marriage falls apart she meets some new friends on YouTube. Also, reporter Paris Martineau tells us about a new game changing online harassment tool: the thotbot.
Meghan wrote about her journey for Medium and Paris’s reporting is from Wired.