Ironically enough, that Daily Beast doxxing piece was written by a person who is *actually* a convicted federal felon (for hacking, no less) but neither he nor the Daily Beast seemed eager to point that out, say in his byline. Publishing a private citizen’s personal information does nothing for the story /RoPDNDiAnPĮXCLUSIVE MUST CREDIT DAILY BEAST WE ARE THE JERKS WHO DOXXED SOME RANDO FOR CLICK$ These people are psychopathic vultures who never learned what the fuck ‘minimize harm’ means. I love how the Daily Beast literally harassed a guy and doxxed him over a stupid meme video. The justifications being offered by rank-closing journalists to justify a major media outlet having investigated, doxxed and exposed an anonymous day labourer for the crime of posting a mocking video of Nancy Pelosi are almost more repugnant than the journalistic bullying itself. You guys went and doxxed an African American blue collar worker and posted his picture on your website because he made an internet video you didn’t like.
The criticisms from others immediately began pouring in as well. He also suggested that the media latched onto him as a convenient “fall guy” because he’s a black conservative with a criminal record. Shawn Brooks, the man identified by Poulsen as the culprit, admitted that he is an admin for several political Facebook pages that shared the doctored video but claims that he did not create the video and that the article got a number of other things wrong. Turns out he’s an itinerant forklift operator from the Bronx who’s been secretly running hard-right “news” outlets across social media for years. NEW: I went looking for the Russian troll behind the ‘Drunk Pelosi’ viral video hoax. (RELATED: Liberals Pounce After Facebook Execs Explain Why Doctored Pelosi Video Is Staying Up) The article, written by Kevin Poulsen, claimed to reveal the identity of the man who doctored the video of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and was published on Saturday. The Daily Beast took a fair amount of heat over the weekend after doxxing a black forklift operator from New York over the fake “drunk Pelosi” video that circulated on social media.