The slander industry: Who profits from destroying reputations online?
26 Apr, 2021 02:42 AM
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Heidi Glosser, the owner of 247Removal.com. Glosser charges US$750 or more per post removal. Photo / The New York Times
Heidi Glosser, the owner of 247Removal.com. Glosser charges US$750 or more per post removal. Photo / The New York Times
New York Times
I wanted to slander someone.
My colleague Kashmir Hill and I were trying to learn who is responsible for and profiting from the growing ecosystem of websites whose primary purpose is destroying reputations.
So I wrote a nasty post. About myself.
Then we watched as a constellation of sites duplicated my creation. To get slander removed, many people hire a reputation management company. In my case, it was going to cost roughly US$20,000 (NZ$27,721).
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(Right) Former Maharashtra home minister Anil Deshmukh. Photo: Reuters
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Twitter is caught between politics and free speech. I was collateral damage.
The Babri Masjid a mosque in Ayodhya, a city in northern India was a source of tension between Hindus and Muslims for nearly a century. Hindus believe it was built on the site of the birthplace of Rama, a holy figure for devout Hindus. On December 6, 1992, a mob of Hindu nationalists destroyed the mosque. The attack sparked violence across India. Two thousand people died.
At the time, I was working as a reporter in Singapore. My mother, who lived in India, called me to point out that Mohandas Gandhi, India’s founding father, who was murdered in 1948 by a Hindu nationalist, had been killed again. By extension his doctrines of tolerance and non-violence, too. Her words have stayed with me.
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