There are close to 20 accounts that keep reposting this information. Do you know someone at Instagram that can help us? The family shared a number of messages sent to them. They know who you and your wife are.
They know where you live. She has been on every media around the world crying her eyes. It was time to finally put an end to it and reveal everything about her.
She has been exposed. Make her viral. They targeted her on social media and on truther websites. Soto says fake accounts are regularly created in her sister's name - many attacking her dead sister, others casting doubt over the Sandy Hook massacre. I saw her clothing with all the bullet holes - and I don't want to have to deal with this. In an effort to stop the daily barrage of online abuse, the family has taken the highly unusual step of applying for a trademark for Victoria's name.
Graney says her job is to remove unpleasant and false posts about the family from social media, "At one point there was fake Facebook pages dedicated to Vicki, and it took me two months to get it down to four," explains Graney, who says some websites are falsely trying to raise funds in Victoria's name, while others are plain harassment.
The FBI has investigated some of the fake accounts they've seen, but due to the huge volume of unpleasant messages the family receives, the usual course of action is to report them to the social networks which host them. Graney says the family has established a protocol with Facebook to ensure hurtful posts and pages are taken down. It's been harder with Twitter, where they receive the most abuse. Twitter's CEO, Dick Costolo recently admitted that the company needed to improve when it came to dealing with internet trolls, admitting that when it comes to handling "abuse and trolls on the platform," the company has had problems for "years".
But the balance between free speech and online abuse can be tricky. A spokesperson for Twitter told the BBC that the company investigates all complaints its receives of this nature: "We review all reported content against our rules, which prohibit impersonation and targeted abuse. If we find the accounts are violating our rules, we will suspend them.
Twitter suspends users who are impersonating someone falsely , but with a reported Victoria Sotos in America, making use of this policy is trickier. These are red flags for violence. My own state, Connecticut, has passed a Red Flag Law , as have four other states.
It empowers family members and local police to petition for the temporary removal of guns from people who exhibit red flags that they might be a danger to themselves or others. This law can help prevent mass shootings, domestic violence incidents, and suicide.
Eighteen other states, including Florida, are considering red flag legislation—they should take action and pass this legislation now. As we collectively reel from this week's tragedy, know that there is something you can do. Call and email your local officials and urge them to support red flag laws if you live in a state where they have been introduced. Now is the time for our elected leaders to take action. They need to act or we will throw them out of office.
Thoughts and prayers are not enough. They have never been enough. The time to act to end this gun violence crisis is today, right now. Carlee Soto is a member of the Everytown Survivor Network.
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