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Why I’m a target for the twitchfork mob

Imagine what it’s like to be the target of several thousand ad hominem attacks on New Year’s Eve. That sobers you up

issue 06 January 2018

Shortly after midnight on 1 January my phone began to vibrate repeatedly. Happy New Year messages from absent friends? No, I was trending on Twitter — the third-most popular topic on the network after #NYE. The cause was a story about me in the next day’s Guardian that had just gone live.

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