Costly consequences and public shaming did not deter Other Naomi’s posting

Evidence

It must have been a miserable time. She was repeatedly suspended and locked out of her social media accounts for violating rules against medical misinformation. She was getting bombarded with abuse and mockery online (as I knew better than anyone but her). By her own telling on Twitter, friends were sending her one-word texts saying simply: “Stop.” Meanwhile, a series of “What Happened to Naomi Wolf?” articles appeared in publications that once regarded her seriously, often taking a new critical look at her past work: “The Madness of Naomi Wolf,” The New Republic; “Naomi Wolf’s Slide from Feminist, Democratic Party Icon to the ‘Conspiracist Whirlpool,’” Business Insider; “A Modern Feminist Classic Changed My Life. Was It Actually Garbage?,” Slate. Yet she kept going, spraying the internet with a steady aerosol of her bizarre theories. — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 232

Categorization

• CANDY: Friends sending one-word ‘Stop’ texts is a compact, shareable image of how a public collapse looks from inside.
• XREF: connects to: Tabloid power rested on the threat of exposure, not patronage rewards — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1576