Twitter account Libs of TikTok blamed for harassment of children's hospitals

[dalton99a]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/09/02/lgbtq-threats-hospitals-libs-of-tiktok/
https://archive.ph/TVggO

Twitter account Libs of TikTok blamed for harassment of children’s hospitals
Employees are warning colleagues to take action against the anti-LGBTQ account, saying it’s ‘only a matter of time’ before its posts lead to violence
By Taylor Lorenz, Elizabeth Dwoskin and Peter Jamison
Updated September 2, 2022 at 6:09 p.m. EDT | Published September 2, 2022 at 5:25 p.m. EDT

Children’s hospitals across the U.S. are facing growing threats of violence, driven by an online anti-LGBTQ campaign attacking the facilities for providing care to transgender kids and teens.

Twitter has left up the account inspiring the attacks, despite employees voicing concerns in internal Slack channels that it’s “only a matter of time” before the posts lead to someone getting killed.

The campaign is led by Libs of TikTok, a Twitter account with more than 1.3 million followers run by a former Brooklyn real estate agent named Chaya Raichik, whose posts are frequently cited by Fox News’s Tucker Carlson and other right-wing media figures.

After gaining a large Twitter following in the spring as she baselessly accused LGBTQ teachers of being pedophiles and “groomers,” Raichik began criticizing children’s health facilities earlier this summer, targeting a hospital in Omaha in June and another in Pittsburgh in August. The attacks resulted in a flood of online harassment and phoned-in threats at both hospitals.

Next came threats against children’s hospitals in Boston and Washington, D.C., after Raichik posted tweets targeting them.

[IngridsLittleAngel]

1. And they're allowed to do so too

They've spent less time in Facebook Jail (a few hours, at best) than my dad has for lashing out at MAGA and calling out bigotry. But, I know.. IOKIYM - It's Okay If You're MAGA. We clearly see here in 2022 that there's two sets of rules: One for us, one for them. We need to watch what we say and do and know our place, while UltraMAGA can do and say whatever they want.

I'm tired as hell of them being given platforms to call for violence - including executing doctors and bomb threats.

I'm even more tired of the fact Ratchik is not behind bars for terrorist threats.

I better stop, though. After all, what's been done to the Boston Children's Hospital is just free speech, and that's far more important than safety.