Twitter User Sparks Controversy for Outing Virginia Protesters

A Twitter Inc. account called @YesYoureRacist sparked controversy after exhorting its 300,000 followers to identify white nationalist and supremacist protesters from last weekend’s march and violence in Charlottesville, Virginia.

So far, at least two people who attended the protest have been revealed and one lost his job, according to the Twitter feed. Critics on the right and left said it was too easy to identify a photo incorrectly and ruin someone’s reputation. Far-right groups accused the anonymous person behind the account of “doxxing,” a term that means unearthing and publishing private information on the internet -- which this technically isn’t.