Hopefully whoever hacked her account gets criminal charges. Because what they did can actually damage someone or multiple peoples career. Sure its just Twitter, but its still a serious thing.
If we can hold employees responsible for damaging their companies via their Twitter account, I absolutely agree that hacking one's account to impersonate them is something we should criminalize in whatever way we can.
When Twitter is criminalized, only criminals will have Twitter. I think part of that may have already happened though.
Logic, my dear, merely enables one to be wrong with great authority.
The lesson here is surely don't do articles on your website without confirmation? The drive to be the first is strong but for serious allegations caution should be the by word. Putting something out as serious as this in a tweet should raise a question mark.
An attempt at least should be made to contact the person to get some confirmation be email the phone or whatever. I know I have made this all sound so easy and straight forward, it is a tricky decision but then that’s the can of worms social media has opened.
I was thinking, who would Bill call? Doubtful he has Gina on speed dial. The Zenimax answer line? "Hello, can you confirm if one of your employees was physically assaulted?
Even if true doubtful Bill could reach anyone high enough who would actually know nor do I believe said person would publically comment on it even to an esteemed journalist. (We love you Bill)
Assault cases are extremely personal and private and few agencies of any type will speak of them or publically name a victim.
Also he had no reason to believe the account was hacked so I'm not seeing much else which he could have done to verify.
Perhaps in the future such a story could be qualified with "have received an unconfirmed report from (whatever the info source was) that such and such happened, more at 11."
She connected Bill via DM on Twitter, now I know this is hardly the time for an interrogation, but could he not ask for some sort of confirmation? If you are going to put that sort of thing out in that way, you can't expect it to be just passed on. I don't blame Bill for this, it is journalistic instinct to get the story out, but Bill was selected to take a fall on this, they need to think about protecting themselves.
Your last paragraph is just the sort of thing I was thinking for putting a question mark in the article.
Moral of the story, don't leave your account information taped to your desk, drawer, monitor, etc.
Secondly, the news or post was an obvious fake. The post said she reported someone for calling her a 'higher up'. Last I checked that would be considered a compliment in america/english language and not sexual assault.
You misunderstood what was stated, which was "just know they are high up and they will be punished."
The implication was a (high up) senior manager was at fault....
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Logic, my dear, merely enables one to be wrong with great authority.
Your last paragraph is just the sort of thing I was thinking for putting a question mark in the article.
You misunderstood what was stated, which was "just know they are high up and they will be punished."
The implication was a (high up) senior manager was at fault....
All turned out to be a ruse regardless
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