‘UNREAL WHEN IT TARGETS YOU’: FACELESS TROLLS ATTACK ONLINE
One morning near the end of her long-shot congressional campaign, 25-year-old Erin Schrode rolled over in bed, reflexively checked her cellphone - and burst into tears.
With mounting horror, she scanned a barrage of anti-Semitic emails from anonymous trolls.“Get out of my country, kike,”read one.“Get to Israel to where you belong. That or the oven. Take your pick.”
Included was a photograph of Schrode digitally stamped with a yellow “Jude” star, the badge that Nazis forced Jews to wear during the Holocaust.
Schrode, a Democrat and activist who would come in third in the June primary in her Northern California district, had become the latest target of The Daily Stormer, a popular neo-Nazi website known for orchestrating internet trolling campaigns.
After the site published a post about the “Jewess” and her candidacy, a reader posted Schrode’s contact information in the comments section. Over the past 10
