COMMENT | Cease harassment, intimidation and doxxing of journo

COMMENT | The Centre for Independent Journalism (CIJ) notes with alarm the recent doxxing and harassment of a journalist today at Free Malaysia Today.

At a public lecture held on Jan 12, the journalist posed a line of questioning which then resulted in a social media outrage, leading to targeted harassment, intimidation and doxxing of the journalist.

While we note that media organisations are responsible for ensuring the highest ethical and responsible reporting standards, and the media organisation has indeed addressed the matter through an internal inquiry, we strongly condemn the actions by actors who seek to threaten the journalist’s safety and privacy.

We are particularly concerned with this issue of doxxing, where many social media users have taken it upon themselves to reveal personal information about the journalist. Many netizens have also used inflammatory, racist, and dehumanising speech against the journalist. These actions...