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The first picture of a black hole made Katie Bouman an overnight celebrity. Then internet trolls descended.
The situation highlighted the vitriol that women continue to face on the internet, and the continued vulnerability of major internet platforms to trolling campaigns.
Katie Bouman, a researcher who helped create the first image of a black hole, quickly gained internet fame Thursday for her role in the project after a photo of her went viral.
But internet trolls soon followed, questioning Bouman’s work and floating false claims that she did not have much of a role in the project. Colleagues rallied to her defense, but the situation highlighted the vitriol that women continue to face on the internet, and the continued vulnerability of major internet platforms to trolling campaigns.
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Where do these trolls live? Under a troll bridge?
Apparently there exist misogynist communities on the internet that can't handle the simple truth that women are both smart & good at what they do in their chosen areas, in this case multi-telescope interferometric imaging. If you can neither spell it or understand it, you don't deserve to be maligning the woman who did a major part of the code writing behind the necessary algorithm.
If they have nothing positive to contribute, why don't they pick on someone who deserves ridicule & derision?
The situation highlighted the vitriol that women continue to face on the internet, and the continued vulnerability of major internet platforms to trolling campaigns.
Katie Bouman, a researcher who helped create the first image of a black hole, quickly gained internet fame Thursday for her role in the project after a photo of her went viral.
But internet trolls soon followed, questioning Bouman’s work and floating false claims that she did not have much of a role in the project. Colleagues rallied to her defense, but the situation highlighted the vitriol that women continue to face on the internet, and the continued vulnerability of major internet platforms to trolling campaigns.
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Where do these trolls live? Under a troll bridge?
Apparently there exist misogynist communities on the internet that can't handle the simple truth that women are both smart & good at what they do in their chosen areas, in this case multi-telescope interferometric imaging. If you can neither spell it or understand it, you don't deserve to be maligning the woman who did a major part of the code writing behind the necessary algorithm.
If they have nothing positive to contribute, why don't they pick on someone who deserves ridicule & derision?