WNBA team hires national security experts to stop online hate
Things have gotten so toxic that professional basketball players now need military-grade protection from internet trolls.
The WNBA is having a moment, but apparently, it comes with a side of deranged internet abuse. One team decided they were done waiting for social media platforms to actually moderate their own sites and brought in literal national security experts.
We are talking about the kind of people who usually track nation-state threats, now pivoting to handle basement-dwelling trolls sending death threats to athletes. It is a bizarre new reality where a jump shot apparently qualifies as a national security concern.
It takes a special kind of failure for a sports organization to outsource its safety to intelligence professionals because the internet turned into a dumpster fire.
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