9 h, jul 25, 2020 y - THE TIMES
Deppheads wage
cyberwar on
Amber Heard
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Johnny Depp’s supporters orchestrated a cyber campaign to press for Amber Heard to be sacked from films and advertising deals, her lawyers claim.
One tweet by an autonomous bot highlighted in their report said: “Fire her from all her rolls [sic] blacklist this crazy liar.” Another said: “I am starting a petition. To get Amber Heard blacklisted from Hollywood!” Heard has been at the centre of her former husband’s libel trial against The Sun over claims that he hit and mentally abused her during their marriage.
The couple were divorced in 2017 and the defamation claim against the newspaper, which is owned by the publisher of The Times, and its executive editor, Dan Wootton, is being heard at the High Court in London.
Kaplan Hecker & Fink, a New York law firm, asked Bot Sentinel, a group that uses artificial intelligence to detect and track troll bots and allegedly untrustworthy Twitter accounts, to assess tweets aimed at Heard. It was specifically asked to investigate whether the actress “had been a victim of an ongoing targeted harassment and smear campaign”.
The authors of the report claimed to have “identified 13 active inauthentic accounts” that had been recently created “specifically to target the Twitter account of Ms Heard”.
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