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Comment by mike_hearn

8 days ago

How do you "dox" a journalist? Are they writing under anonymous bylines now?

By releasing personal information which a reasonable person would expect to be private? I don't know the specifics of this case (only responding to the overly vague question) but information like address, private contact info, details about their families. Anything you would not immediately expect to become public knowledge simply by writing about topic(s).

  • In the US at least owning a residence is public record. It can be obfuscated with shell companies and things like that but most people don’t do.

Putting home address of one of the journalists in a video when you have milion subscribers (many of which know about your beef)... that's not fun.