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Anyone who employs people who are required to be very online—especially marginalized people, especially women, especially non-white women—should have a playbook for trolling by now
Sunday for nebulous reasons, allegedly stemming from her Twitter activity following the death of NBA giant Kobe Bryant. Hours after news broke that Bryantin a helicopter crash—which killed eight others, including his 13-year-old daughter—Sonmez tweeted a link to a Daily Beast article, which documented details of the 2003 rape accusation against him that temporarily derailed his career.
Journalists tweet about everything from their beat to what they’re binge-watching—part of their value is tied up in attracting an audience that is curious about their insight—and that an editor tried to pass off Sonmez’s suspension as tied to tweeting about non-work related content is laughable. And as Wemple noted in his screed against his employer’s decision to suspend Sonmez, if this were a policy that was actually enforced, “the entire newsroom should be on administrative leave.
And the Kobe tweet wasn’t an isolated incident. The Washington Post Guild’s statement revealed that The Post has a history of chastising Sonmez for her frankness in discussing her own alleged sexual assault, emphasis ours:
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