Paris martineau is a technology writer who often focuses on the intersection of internet tools, on line harassment and mesageny. This is why last thanksgiving, a next level on line harassment campaign caught her eye. It began with something called the thought audit. Paris: All you have to do is throw out the word mesagene, and you've basically shut down the conversation. But it's crazy that tools like that can be abused.
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.