https://www.dailydot.com/irl/4chan-trap-discord-trans-panic/
Her claims began unraveling through a niche internet community called Kiwifarms, a community with the stated purpose of mocking “lolcows” i.e. anyone on the internet deemed to be mockable, usually because the forum users perceive them to have some form of mental illness or sexual deviance.
https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2...munity-embracing-pedophiles-went-viral/221394
The Daily Caller’s piece was also shared on far-right anonymous message board Kiwi Farms, which regularly leads harassment campaigns, including one that led to the suicide of a transgender woman. There were nearly 300 posts discussing the piece in Kiwi Farms’ thread. There were also hundreds of comments in a Reddit thread about The Daily Caller’s piece, further demonstrating that these forums can gin up misinformation campaigns and escalate them through right-wing media validators -- and that hoaxes continue to grow in the right-wing echo chamber, including back on the message boards.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/fruzsinaeordogh/2018/04/08/on-demonetization-and-the-youtube-shooter/
A smattering of comments from the various Internet trash peanut galleries (KiwiFarms, 4chan, YouTube comments, etc) about the shooter include: “Better than Sam Hyde,” “New queen of /pol/,” “This is the best video on YouTube,” “A Goddess for the ages,” and most relevant: “She lived defending animals, and she died defending free speech.” Any attempts to remove content related to the YouTube shooter only make online miscreants spread her content further as a kind of middle finger to YouTube proper. A “they may have ‘censored’ her while she was alive but they cannot censor her in death” kind of mentality.
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2018...servative-harassers-victims-smears-breitbart/
In addition, the piece also repeats some demonstrably false claims without any attempt to fact-check them. For example, the piece reports that material regarding Fong-Jones appeared on the web forum Kiwi Farms following the publication of James Damore’s memo calling for more viewpoint diversity at the company, and subsequent reporting by Breitbart News and Vox Popoli.
However, a cursory search of the Kiwi Farms forums reveals that Fong-Jones had been targeted by the site’s users since at least February 2017—five months before Damore’s memo was written, and long before any coverage of Fong-Jones appeared in the alternative media.
Brianna Wu (and GamerGate???) https://www.intomore.com/impact/brianna-wu-isnt-finished
Wu, an openly queer video game developer, gained national fame following the Gamergate controversy. Her outspoken defense of women in the gaming industry attracted the attention of extremist trolls on websites like Kiwi Farms and 4chan.
https://www.engadget.com/2018/07/13/gamergate-s-subreddit-temporarily-shuts-down-because-toxicity/
"KiA became infested with racism and sexism... and other ism's (though many ism's are not real). GG forums were created on KiwiFarms and 8chan as a result," David-me posted. "This was the best and worst thing. The monster was now a virus. We banned links to, and then mention of certain links and topics. Now we became the enemy."
Chloe Sagal https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...-31-year-old-transgender-artist-set-fire.html
Members of Kiwi Farms, whose participants 'specialize in harassing people they perceive as being mentally ill or sexually deviant in some way,' began targeting Sagal and revealed that the money was actually being raised for her gender surgery.
https://lenta.ru/news/2018/06/26/sagal/
В 2013 году трансгендер стала мишенью пользователей имиджборда Kiwi Farms — сообщества, посвященного обсуждению «эксцентричных людей, которые добровольно выставляют себя дураками». Кроме того, на сайте нередко собираются те, кто преследует и запугивает жертв в сети.
Couch Cuck https://www.thedailybeast.com/new-m...ecret-life-on-pro-trump-white-supremacy-sites
On Kiwi Farms, a forum that describes itself as a place for “gossip and exploitation of the mentally handicapped for amusement purposes,” Atchison frequently posted commemorations of mass shooters. Two days before his own school shooting, under his username “Fuck You,” Atchison posted an explicit sexual reply endorsing Lindsay Kantha Souvannarath, a failed mass shooter from Halifax, Nova Scotia. (Atchison used a photo of Kiwi Farms administrator Josh Moon as his profile picture for Steam.)
https://www.newyorker.com/tech/anna...e-daily-stormer-wander-the-digital-wilderness
This wasn’t the first controversial Web site that Dias had abetted. Last year, on the Daily Kos, Margaret Pless called him out for hosting an infamous cyberbullying hub called Kiwi Farms, which, as she noted in a separate article for New York, “specializes in harassing people they perceive as being mentally ill or sexually deviant in some way.” The site has been associated with at least one target’s suicide. Pless told me that she had attempted to contact Dias multiple times without receiving a response. Later, though, Kiwi Farms apparently switched providers, quietly vacating Frantech’s servers.
SPLC Bonus Round!! https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch...zi-leanings-charged-canadian-mass-murder-plot
The Internet sleuths at the site Kiwi Farms, where she had at one time been an active member, further tracked Souvanarrath’s activities and ascertained that she had also been an active member at a forum devoted to fascist ideology called Iron March, which is apparently operated by a man named Alexander Slavros.
https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2018/04/18/class-conflict-dividing-america’s-race-warriors
As the alt-right attempted to regain its pre-Charlottesville momentum, several leaders engaged in a belated PR campaign while vicious flame wars raged on the The Right Stuff’s 504um, Gab.ai and the KiwiFarms.com. These debates and online battles were framed around the question of “optics,” tactics and messaging.