#JOHNNY DEPP TWITTER TRENDING TRIAL#
Heard also spoke out about the representation of the trial on social media in June, after it had ended. It also cites Twitter’s inaction on platform manipulation and lack of support for harassment victims as a significant factor, and says that the platform will continue to be weaponised unless it establishes more aggressive harassment policies. “What we observed was one of the worst cases of cyberbullying and cyberstalking by a group of Twitter accounts that we've ever seen,” concludes the Bot Sentinel report. Vocal supporters of Heard, meanwhile, were reportedly targeted with death threats and doxxing – abuse that even extended to younger family members, and went on weeks after the trial had ended. These include purposely misspelling the hashtags to “deceive Twitter’s algorithms”, posting copypasta that extolled the virtues of Johnny Depp, and creating sock puppet accounts. However, these were just a small proportion of the thousands of accounts spamming hashtags such as #AmberHeardIsAnAbuser, #AmberHeardLsAnAbuser, #AmberHeardIsALiar, and #AmberHeardLsALiar – many of which were created within the last seven months.īot Sentinel also points out some of the Twitter-specific tactics used by trolls to artificially inflate anti-Heard messaging and get it trending. Undertaken by Bot Sentinel (a non-partisan website that uses machine learning to identify and help fight disinformation and targeted harassment) the July 18 report discovered 627 Twitter accounts that were primarily focused on tweeting negatively about Heard and her female supporters. Depp’s legal team argued that readers of the article were likely to assume that he was the unnamed subject of accusations about her own abuse.Ī highly-publicised trial followed in 2022, with online content creators feeding into the narrative that Heard was manipulative and hysterical through live streams, grim “highlight reels”, and viral conspiracy theories. The legal battle began with Depp suing Heard in 2019, revolving around an opinion piece that Heard wrote for the Washington Post the year before, on the subject of domestic abuse and the backlash against women who speak out. Now, an independent study has confirmed that Heard was subjected to “rampant abuse and widespread targeted harassment” on Twitter during the trial with her ex-husband and alleged abuser. Heard defamation trial, and while loyalties were divided between the two actors, the vast majority of content skewed toward mockery or flat-out hatred of Amber Heard. From April 11 to June 1 this year, our social media feeds were overtaken by a flood of commentary and live footage from the Depp v.
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