{"id":393723,"date":"2019-01-22T12:11:08","date_gmt":"2019-01-22T11:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-family-of-teen-falsely-ided-as-covington-student-tells-of-harassment-by-twitter-mob\/"},"modified":"2019-01-22T12:11:08","modified_gmt":"2019-01-22T11:11:08","slug":"prison-planet-com-family-of-teen-falsely-ided-as-covington-student-tells-of-harassment-by-twitter-mob","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-family-of-teen-falsely-ided-as-covington-student-tells-of-harassment-by-twitter-mob\/","title":{"rendered":"Prison Planet.com \u00bb Family Of Teen Falsely IDed As Covington Student Tells Of Harassment By Twitter Mob"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Chris Menahan<\/strong><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.informationliberation.com\/?id=59700\">Information Liberation<\/a><br \/>January 21, 2019<\/p>\n<p><strong>The brother of a random young teen named Michael Hodge, who was wrongly identified as a student of Covington Catholic High School and doxed by hate-filled Twitter mobs, revealed Sunday how the Twitterati is working tirelessly to destroy the lives of his entire family.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On his personal Twitter account, Michael\u2019s brother Andrew Hodge told the disturbing story of how a day which was supposed to be a celebration of their brother Alex getting married turned into a nightmare.<\/p>\n<p><i>[Michael is pictured above right.]<\/i><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">1) Yesterday was supposed to be a day of celebration for my middle brother Alex, who got married last night. Instead my family had to deal with the fallout of my youngest brother <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MichaelHodge?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#MichaelHodge<\/a> being falsely accused for standing &amp; smiling in front of an indigenous man with a drum<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Andrew Hodge (@PikePlaceTechie) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PikePlaceTechie\/status\/1087117202749378560?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 20, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">3) No one reviews evidence or does any due diligence, they immediately escalate things to a state of frenzy over much of nothing. The zealots scream for the head of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MichaelHodge?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#MichaelHodge<\/a> knowing that their will be zero consequences to them if anything happens to him<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Andrew Hodge (@PikePlaceTechie) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PikePlaceTechie\/status\/1087117627170918400?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 20, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThe zealots scream for the head of #MichaelHodge knowing that their will be zero consequences to them if anything happens to him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Truer words were never spoken.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">5) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MichaelHodge?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#MichaelHodge<\/a> is the best kid I know. He volunteers for Special Olympics (took them skiing this Thursday) is involved in the church youth group, doesn&#8217;t drink\/smoke (volunteer member of the Drugs Free Club of America) and is an aspiring chef<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Andrew Hodge (@PikePlaceTechie) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PikePlaceTechie\/status\/1087117996999536644?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 20, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Your brother\u2019s goodness \u2014 and the goodness of the Covington Catholic students \u2014 is why they want to destroy you.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">7) You reach out saying how &#8220;terrible&#8221; of a family we are, defame us, threaten us, and you know nothing about us. Yet&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/family-of-teen-falsely-ided-as-covington-student-tells-of-harassment-by-twitter-mob.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris MenahanInformation LiberationJanuary 21, 2019 The brother of a random young teen named Michael Hodge, who was wrongly identified as a student of Covington Catholic High School and doxed by hate-filled Twitter mobs, revealed Sunday how the Twitterati is working tirelessly to destroy the lives of his entire family. On his personal Twitter account, Michael\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-393723","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}