On Surviving the Twitter Mob

It doesn’t take much to find yourself with a target on your back these days.

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In the last couple of days, I was caught in what is called a “Twitter sh**storm.” It started with a piece I read in the Guardian about Black Lives Matter demonstrations, and it ended, via Jean-Marie Le Pen, with the American-Dutch-Somali intellectual Ayaan Hirsi Ali.

Let me explain from the beginning.

Leon de Winter

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Leon de Winter

Leon de Winter is a writer and columnist based in the Netherlands.

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