{"id":19073,"date":"2022-07-19T11:39:42","date_gmt":"2022-07-19T11:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/anti-amber-heard-twitter-campaign-one-of-worst-cases-of-cyberbullying-report-says\/"},"modified":"2022-07-19T11:39:42","modified_gmt":"2022-07-19T11:39:42","slug":"anti-amber-heard-twitter-campaign-one-of-worst-cases-of-cyberbullying-report-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/anti-amber-heard-twitter-campaign-one-of-worst-cases-of-cyberbullying-report-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Anti-Amber Heard Twitter Campaign One Of ‘Worst Cases Of Cyberbullying,’ Report Says"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Tweets trolling Amber Heard and her supporters during and after her highly-publicized defamation trial against Johnny Depp resulted in \u201cone of the worst cases of cyberbullying and cyberstalking by a group of Twitter accounts\u201d according to a report released Monday from Bot Sentinel, an firm that studies disinformation campaigns and online harassment on social media. <\/p>\n

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Actress Amber Heard departs the Fairfax County Courthouse on June 1, 2022 in Fairfax, Virginia. the … [+]<\/span> jury in the Johnny Depp vs. Amber Heard case awarded Depp $ 15 million in damages to his career over an op-ed Heard wrote in the Washington Post in 2018.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The nonpartisan group Bot Sentinel studied over 14,000 tweets using the hashtags #AmberHeardIsAnAbuser, #AmberHeardLsAnAbuser, #AmberHeardIsALiar and #AmberHeardLsALiar\u2014and noted the \u201cintentional misspelling demonstrates a calculated effort to manipulate hashtag trends\u201d and was done to \u201cto deceive.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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There were 627 accounts dedicated to \u201cexclusively\u201d tweeting about Heard and her female supporters. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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Over 24% of the accounts tweeting and using negative hashtags about Heard were created in the last seven months; \u201cthe average for other topics is 8.6%,\u201d Bot Sentinel reported. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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Heard and women who tweeted their support of her were \u201cattacked relentlessly,\u201d often with \u201cvulgar and threatening language;\u201d Bot Sentinel detailed an instance in which someone created a fake account using photos of a Heard supporter’s deceased child to attack them, and also harassed this person’s family members. <\/p>\n

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Trolls that attacked Heard and her supporters recently turned their negative attention to Evan Rachel Wood, who has accused Marilyn Manson of sexual abuse, and Cassidy Hutchinson, a former aid of Mark Meadows who recently tested during a public January 6 hearing, Bot Sentinel said. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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Bot Sentinel included a disclaimer in its report that Heard’s team contacted the group in 2020 to study social media activity about her, which was separate from their study of the Heard Depp case, which it began in June. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cWhat we observed was one of the worst cases of cyberbullying and cyberstalking by a group of Twitter accounts that we’ve ever seen,\u201d Bot Sentinel wrote in its report. \u201cIt’s our opinion Twitter didn’t do enough to mitigate the platform manipulation and did very little to stop the abuse and targeted harassment.\u201d Bot Sentinel said it gave Twitter a copy of its report before publishing it. <\/p>\n

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Depp accused Heard of defamation over a 2018 Washington Post<\/em> op-ed in which she described herself as \u201ca public victim representing domestic abuse.\u201d The jury found Heard defamed Depp, and he was awarded $10.4 million. The jury also decided Depp defamed Heard, and she was awarded $2 million. Attention on social media was captured by the roughly six-week long televised trial. In addition to Twitter, TikTok became a hotbed for discussion of the case, which largely appeared to be in favor of Depp. Vice reported in May that conservative media outlet The Daily Wire spent between $35,000 and $47,000 promoting articles about the trial, which had a \u201ca clear bias against Heard,\u201d on Instagram and Facebook, where it’s one of the most popular publishers. In June, shortly after the trial ended, the #JusticeForJohnnyDepp hashtag on TikTok had 20.4 billion views, compared to 88.6 million of the #JusticeForAmberHeard. \u201cEven if you think that I’m lying, you still couldn’t look me in the eye and tell me that you think on social media there’s been a fair representation,\u201d Heard said on the today<\/em> show after the verdict. Lawyers for Depp denied that social media had an impact on the verdict, and said that there was a coordinated campaign created on Depp’s behalf \u201ccategorically false.\u201d <\/p>\n

Further Reading<\/h2>\n

Report finds online campaign of “widespread targeted harassment” against supporters of Amber Heard (CBS News) <\/p>\n

Amber Heard Says She Doesn’t ‘Blame’ Jurors For Siding With Johnny Depp\u2014But Says Trial Wasn’t ‘Fair’ (Forbes)<\/p>\n

Johnny Depp’s Lawyers Don’t Think Verdict Will Affect #MeToo Movement (Forbes)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Topline Tweets trolling Amber Heard and her supporters during and after her highly-publicized defamation trial against Johnny Depp resulted in \u201cone of the worst cases of cyberbullying and cyberstalking by a group of Twitter accounts\u201d according to a report released Monday from Bot Sentinel, an firm that studies disinformation campaigns and online harassment on social …<\/p>\n

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