Andrew Yang’s 2020 Campaign Courted 4chan. Now It's Doxing One Of His Staffers.
An obscure Democrat running for president has found an unexpected well of support in the same social media spaces that elevated a new far right in 2016.
But the meme swamps the Yang Gang calls home harbor all sorts of life — some of it far less affable. And the Yang campaign is learning that lesson the hard way. Over the past few days, its deputy chief of staff has become the target of a textbook 4chan harassment campaign. She's been doxxed, harassed, and cast as the lead character in an outlandish conspiracy theory about a “Jewish plot” to manipulate 4chan users into sharing pro-Yang content.
Yang’s embrace of 4chan started going south earlier this month, after Yang's deputy chief of staff Carly Reilly, “UBI is feminist.” The remark irked some on 4chan’s Politically Incorrect board, home to some of the community’s more hardcore white nationalists. They lashed out, infiltrated a pro-Yang Discord server, and started leaking screenshots, hoping to destabilize the Yang Gang.
Others noted that RadicalMedia has a Shanghai office, folding that detail into another emerging conspiracy theory that Yang is a socialist Chinese spy. A spokesperson for the Yang campaign told BuzzFeed News that they are taking the harassment campaign against Reilly seriously.
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