Comment by scruple

> But is that actually happening

Yes. [0] There are many examples. Jon Ronson wrote a book in 2015 called "So You've Been Publicly Shamed" that profiled, IIRC, a half of a dozen different people, just normal people, not celebrities, who were dragged publicly on Twitter and MSM and lost their jobs, etc...

[0]: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/06/stop-firin...