The Committee to Protect Journalists says a freelance journalist writing for the Guardian and Washington Post has been arrested and deported from Nicaragua after a “targeted online harassment campaign”.
Last week, Carl David Goette-Luciak’s reporting on anti-government protests in Nicaragua was attacked by US journalist Max Blumenthal in an article published on an American website called Mint Press and British left-wing site the Canary.
The Mint Press article was titled “How an American Anthropologist Tied to US Regime-Change Proxies Became the MSM’s Man in Nicaragua”, while the Canary ran the headline, “Investigation slams Guardian cooperation with novice reporter linked to US regime-change machine.”
Along with Blumenthal’s attack, Goette-Luciak was doxxed and targeted by Facebook and Twitter users in mid-September, the CPJ said. An online campaign reportedly accused him of an “attempt to destabilise the country and being a Central Intelligence Agency operative”.
Source: A Journalist Has Been Deported From Nicaragua After Being Doxxed By An Online Mob | BuzzFeed News