"There are no good mobs"

Stephen Elliott's life was derailed by the Shitty Media Men List. His story casts a light on fake "crowdsourcing" and internet hysteria

Stephen Elliott, who founded The Rumpus, which was one of my favorite magazines for years, had his career destroyed when anonymous rape accusations were published against him on the now infamous Shitty Media Men list in 2017, at the height of the #MeToo movement. As detailed very well here, crowdsourcing anonymous accusations can have profoundly adverse…