The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) tallied 44 physical attacks on journalists in North American in 2017, mostly during protests. CPJ thinks President Donald Trump’s disparagement of the press has fueled the increase of violence against journalists with 1000 Trump tweets attacking the media between his announcement of his candidacy and January of 2018. (The Guardian, June 14, 2018, by Jason Wilson)
After revealing the name of a hate-monger operating on a Twitter account followed by Sean Hannity, Roseanne Barr, Sarah Huckabee Sanders and Ryan Zinke, a Huffington Post reported received numbers of threats by tweet, phone and e-mail and had his colleagues’ and family members’ addresses and phone numbers published. While anonymous speakers have First Amendment protection from government action, their identities become newsworthy when they spread hate especially to a list of prominent government officials. (Huffington Post, January 8, 2018, by Nick Baumann)