Interview · moment 8 of 16
Introducing Katie Herzog and Jesse Singal on the Sub Stack Harassment Claims
from #244 - Dobrik's Death Count | The Tim Dillon Show · #244
4 min
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Tim introduces Katie Herzog and Jesse Singal of Blocked and Reported, who explain the years-long campaign accusing Jesse of stalking and harassing trans women online despite no evidence, including sock puppet accounts, Nicole Cliffe and Jude Doyle's claims, and Brianna Wu's unproven 'receipts' tweet.
- Substack is a platform for writers to fund journalistic endeavors through fan bases.
- Jesse and Katie both wrote articles about detransitioners and faced backlash for it.
- In Katie's case, people burned stacks of the paper and put up stickers calling her a Nazi sympathizer around Seattle.
- Sock puppet accounts started appearing on Twitter trying to manufacture a #MeToo incident against Jesse, including false accusations of sending unsolicited explicit images.
- Bigger-name writers like Nicole Cliff and Jude Doyle amplified the accusations to their platforms without evidence.
- Jude Doyle wrote that Jesse is well-known for stalking trans women, using that exact term.
- Katie and Jesse offered a $60,000 bounty for Brianna Wu to produce actual evidence of the stalking claims.
- The accusations have escalated from calling someone problematic to labeling them a dangerous criminal stalker.
- The narrative frames Jesse as someone who follows people home at night if they disagree with him, moving beyond platform denial to suggesting criminal behavior.
Katie HerzogJesse SingalSubstackBlocked and ReportedJude DoyleBrianna WuNicole Cliff