Academic and TV historian Mary Beard, who received a series of disgusting abuse via Twitter, has taken a novel approach to dealing with her trolls –by writing a job reference for one of them. They include the university student Oliver Rawlings, whom she publicly named and shamed in July last year after he sent her an abusive message. Beard retweeted it to her 47,000 followers to out her abuser, but said she had now taken to writing job recommendations for Rawlings so he didnt suffer in the long term for one moment of idiocy. Rawlings has since apologised to Ms Beard via his own Twitter account, writing: I sincerely apologise for my trolling. I was wrong and very rude. Hope this can be forgotten and forgiven. I feel this had been a good lesson for me. Thanks 4 showing me the error of my ways.
Posted on: Thu, 28 Aug 2014 09:12:08 +0000
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