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11,000 Accounts Made 25,000 Posts to Unmask Cornell Accuser
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A New York Times analysis has quantified the massive scale of a social media campaign to reveal the identity of a plaintiff alleging she was gang-raped by seven men at Cornell University. More than 11,000 accounts on X, Bluesky, Discord and Telegram published nearly 25,000 posts to identify the woman, referred to as Jane Doe. The data shows the operation persisted across multiple platforms even as Meta and TikTok attempted to limit the spread of content that purported to name her.
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