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‘You worthless … scum’: What it’s like to be targeted by a Donald Trump subreddit
Something was rotten in . . . well, as it turned out, Reddit, the social media forum that calls itself “The Front Page of the Internet” and is often associated with Internet mischief, and worse. In the midst of this, I received an email from my colleague Abby Ohlheiser, who covers Web culture for the Post’s Intersect blog, informing me that I might be receiving strange emails because an extremely pointed message was posted in r/The_Donald — a subreddit or a page on the massive social message board Reddit — encouraging its readers do just that.
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Amusing, but comes across a bit whiny for a few emails. By internet mob standards that wasn't even an anthill.