Discussion

• @djbethell David Bethell on x

  @zxjy0 ... “The trial has just trained millions of people to discard their own empathy, their own rational judgment, in exchange for the gleeful mockery, rejection, and belittlement of a woman making herself vulnerable in public.” Welcome to you. https://www.vox.com/...

• @mccoolingtons Alice McCool on x

  Depp's campaign has “attracted the support of men's rights activists, right-wing media figures...sex abuse conspiracists, armchair true-crime detectives...and plenty of opportunists eager to draft off the trial traffic.” #DeppVsHeard https://www.nytimes.com/...

• @nytimes @nytimes on x

  Television turned the celebrity trial into a 24-hour tabloid spectacle. Social media made it into a sport, our critic writes, allowing viewers of the Johnny Depp-Amber Heard trial to manipulate footage into an internet-wide smear campaign against Heard. https://www.nytimes.com/..…

• @rottenindenmark Michael Hobbes on x

  I cannot get over how many people have managed to both-sides this. Depp's entire case against Heard is that she engaged in a years-long conspiracy to fake all this evidence and convince nearly a dozen people to lie under oath for her. https://ew.com/... https://twitter.com/...

• @nytimes @nytimes on x

  Television turned the celebrity trial into a 24-hour tabloid spectacle. With the defamation trial between Johnny Depp and Amber Heard, our critic @amandahess writes, social media has made it into a sport. https://www.nytimes.com/...

• @petefrasermusic Pete Fraser on x

  It's been truly disturbing, and whatever anyone thinks of the facts of the case, they should find it disturbing too. I've never seen anything on the scale of the hounding of Heard on the video apps. It's obsessive, vindictive and dangerous. Scary stuff. https://twitter.com/...

• @girl_goneglobal Alyssa Pinsker on x

  How TikTok's Coverage Of Amber Heard & Johnny Depp Radicalizes Young People Against Women https://www.yourtango.com/... via @yourtango

• @sianushka @sianushka on x

  This is so true. I've not posted about the case at all because of what happened at Xmas but every time I open Facebook or Insta I get pro Depp content blaring at me https://www.nytimes.com/...

• @rohmontgomery Ricky Montgomery on x

  just saw a tiktok of some kids holding up “johnny depp” and “amber heard” on their phones in my crowds to, like, do a crowd poll of who they support more (??) please don't do shit like that at my shows domestic abuse is not entertainment, and i am disgusted

• @lisatozzi Lisa Tozzi on x

  “When the trial ends this week, the elaborate grassroots campaign to smear a woman will remain, now with a plugged-in support base and a field-tested harassment playbook. All it needs is a new target.” https://www.nytimes.com/...

• @miriamelder Miriam Elder on x

  The GamerGate comparison feels apt https://www.nytimes.com/...

• @homoseinfeld Lucie on x

  “When the trial ends this week, the elaborate grassroots campaign to smear a woman will remain, now with a plugged-in support base and a field-tested harassment playbook. All it needs is a new target.” https://www.nytimes.com/...