A Daily Beast reporter was doxxed after publishing a story about Bernie Sanders' campaign staffer's harassing tweets
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- On Monday night, The Daily Beast published a story about a now-former Michigan field director for the Sanders campaign, who had sent many tweets mocking and degrading other candidates.
- The piece generated a lot of chatter on Twitter, led to the staffer being fired, and to the reporter being harassed by Sanders supporters, or those claiming to be Sanders supporters, online.
- On Monday night, Sanders was asked at a CNN town hall about the alleged behavior of his supporters, and he said that the majority of his supporters were "fantastic people," but condemned the "jerks" among them.
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After Scott Bixby, a national reporter at The Daily Beast, published an article exposing a staffer on Sen. Bernie Sanders' campaign for using degrading language about other candidates on a private Twitter account, Bixby was subjected to online harassment himself.
A regional field director in Michigan, Ben Mora, tweeted that Sen. Amy Klobuchar "looks like her name: pained, chunky, [and] confused origin/purpose," called Sen. Elizabeth Warren a "dumb Okie" and "an adult diaper fetishist," and disparaged her appearance. He also tweeted that former Mayor Pete Buttigieg "is what happens when the therapist botches the conversion." See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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