The Anti-Defamation League said it’s concerned by the targeting of journalists on social media in the past year.
Tallahassee attorney Chuck Hobbs is a columnist for the political website “The Hill.” He said he was threatened online by a man offended by Hobbs’ criticism of President-elect Donald Trump.
“The level of vitriol going on in the public discourse – if we don’t get that under control, eventually it’s going to turn into sad situations where there’s some extreme violence takes place," he said. "I mean on an individual-type level. But I’m concerned about that, I am.”
The Anti-Defamation League report found shows that at least 800 reporters got discriminatory tweets between August 2015 and July 2016. The volume of harassing tweets increased in the first six months of 2016.
