[Maru]

Candace Owens is a fraud. It's amazing how her this part of her slate was wiped clean once she started playing for the right:

The Strange Tale of Social Autopsy, the Anti-Harassment Start-up That Descended Into Gamergate Trutherism (2016)
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2016...rutherism.html

Social Autopsy launched its Kickstarter campaign on April 12, billing itself as a way to catalogue the abuses of trolls and cyberbullies. Its founder is Candace Owens, a 26-year-old woman with a background in finance who has painful firsthand experience with bullying — when she was in high school in Stamford, Connecticut, a classmate and former friend left racist death threats on her phone, sparking a local scandal that came to ensnare the mayor and his son, the latter of whom was in a car with the perpetrator at the time he threatened Owens.

It’s clear these events had an effect on Owens. “The age of technology and social media has slowly disintegrated individual accountability, the consequences of which are devastating,” she says in Social Autopsy’s promotional video, which then rolls news coverage of a series of suicides that may have been caused, at least in part, by cyberbullying. She then explains what Social Autopsy will do: “We attach [people’s] words to their places of employment, and anybody in the entire world can search for them. What we are doing is figuratively lifting the masks up so nobody can hide behind, you know, Twitter handles or privatized profiles. It’s all real, and it’s all researchable. You can still say whatever you want to say on social media, but you have to be willing to stand by your words.” According to the Kickstarter, the company is seeking $75,000 in funding and hopes to launch with 150,000 profiles.

TLDR: Social Autopsy was project for building a search engine where people's private information would be posted relative to their comments... so would be officially a doxxing website. Now she's one of the "bullies" she once campaigned against.


Even with testing, people are still going to keep claiming that she is actually male. This still gets said about Michelle Obama. People used to accuse people like Wendy Williams of being a man during the 90s. There were frequently articles in US tabloids always entertaining the possibility or claiming to have exposed different celebrities for the same thing. I used to remember seeing those on the front page in grocery stores.

They weren't sued I guess because it could be assumed publications like the National Enquirer were being entertaining for indulging a hoax. Except now anyone can break the news now, including the average sh**poster. So it's almost impossible to draw the same lines now as before.