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Guys who are fools
by Susan Cohen
What happens when a niche Facebook group transforms into a digital kangaroo court?In this episode, we dive deep into a chilling, textbook case of extreme online vigilantism, social media extortion, and crowdsourced public humiliation. When a private dispute spilled onto the internet, a Facebook group admin named Mary Cetovitch didn’t just rally a local mob across Chicago and Milwaukee to deface a man's online identity—she held his digital life hostage.We look step-by-step at the jaw-dropping receipts of how the group chat weaponized explicit, compromised personal data to force Steven Franks into total compliance. This wasn’t just a demand for a standard apology; it was a highly orchestrated, deeply degrading hostage negotiation. Franks was given a brutal ultimatum: watch his personal life and marriage be permanently destroyed online, or record a highly scripted video apology inside a pop-up hate group while wearing nothing but his underwear, "dolled up" for the amuseme
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What happens when a niche Facebook group transforms into a digital kangaroo court?In this episode, we dive deep into a chilling, textbook case of extreme online vigilantism, social media extortion, and crowdsourced public humiliation. When a private dispute spilled onto the internet, a Facebook group admin named Mary Cetovitch didn’t just rally a local mob across Chicago and Milwaukee to deface a man's online identity—she held his digital life hostage.We look step-by-step at the jaw-dropping receipts of how the group chat weaponized explicit, compromised personal data to force Steven Franks into total compliance. This wasn’t just a demand for a standard apology; it was a highly orchestrated, deeply degrading hostage negotiation. Franks was given a brutal ultimatum: watch his personal life and marriage be permanently destroyed online, or record a highly scripted video apology inside a pop-up hate group while wearing nothing but his underwear, "dolled up" for the amuseme
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Susan Cohen
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