Who Is Weev, and Why Did He Derail a Journalist's Career?
A newly hired opinion writer for <em>The New York Times</em> called weev "a terrible person, and an old friend of mine." The rest of the world calls him a Nazi.
by Rachel Gutman
Feb 14, 2018
2 minutes
In the span of about six hours yesterday, announced the hiring of Quinn Norton as a tech columnist and then apparently fired her. The claims that their decision to “go their separate ways” was guided by “,” revealed through a social-media maelstrom, about slurs Norton had used on Twitter and about her with someone called weev. In October, Norton
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