Just a warning before we start this this series contains strong language and descriptions of violence.

It's just the truth is stranger than fiction side of the way the world works. You know, you

couldn't make this up if you tried.

Attribution has always been the hardest part of this story.

Working out who trolled Amber, not just what happened to her.

And to be fair, that is what everyone told us.

Are we going to get a smoking gun?

No, you will never find a smoking gun to this.

I guarantee you all.

Oftentimes attribution is in a definitive way is impossible.

It wasn't like I'm going to go hire this particular influencer to do this type of work.

By this point a few months into our investigation,

Johann and Kaicheng, the data scientists have finished their analysis.

Their evidence suggests that

bots and trolls played a significant role in depthy heard.

Johann concluded that at least half the tweets he looked at were inauthentic and Xavier and I found specific

examples of orchestrated hate coming from all around the world. When you think

that there was nothing to stop the jury going online during the Depherge trial,

and you throw in the witness intimidation and the real-time trolling of Amber's experts,

there's a good argument that she didn't get a fair trial.

I think that's scary in itself.

If domestic abuse victims and their witnesses think that they'll be trashed online before a court case. That's yet another

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