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Twitter Silent As Anti-Christian Buzzfeed Editor Posts Producer’s Cell Number, Incites Harassment

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The drama over Buzzfeed trying to publicly shame the stars of an HGTV show over their church’s stance on same-sex marriage just keeps getting more ridiculous.

The author of the hit piece, Kate Aurthur, is a reporter and editor for the liberal site Buzzfeed News. Alex Varney, a producer for Dana Loesch, a conservative host for The Blaze, emailed Arthur, asking her to come on the show via Skype to discuss the article.

Then, in response to a tweet from Loesch that criticized her, Aurthur tweeted a screenshot of the email Varney sent to her to ask about coming on the show. The screenshot also contained Varney’s cell phone number as part of his email signature, effectively making his private number public information, and exposing him to Arthur’s some 24.7K followers.

This apparently led to Varney getting so many harassing calls that he tweeted that he needed to get a new cell phone number.

Aurthur’s behavior is seemingly in violation of Twitter’s rules on harassment which read, in part,

“Harassment: You may not incite or engage in the targeted abuse or harassment of others. Some of the factors that we may consider when evaluating abusive behavior include:

if a primary purpose of the reported account is to harass or send abusive messages to others;

if the reported behavior is one-sided or includes threats;

if the reported account is inciting others to harass another account; and

if the reported account is sending harassing messages to an account from multiple accounts.”

Under this definition, Aurthur presumably engaged in inciting the harassment of another user.

However, Arthur has yet to be suspended or banned for her behavior. Twitter has banned accounts for far less, such as Breitbart Tech editor Milo Yiannopoulos, who was permanently suspended after making jokes at the expense of actress Leslie Jones. And just a few weeks ago, several Twitter accounts associated with the “alt-right” movement were removed, despite the fact that some had never engaged in any behavior that one could consider “harassment” of any kind.

As of press time for this article, Arthur’s account remains up.

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Justin Caruso