The New York Times is defending Nikole Hannah-Jones, creator of the controversial “1619 Project” after she doxed a reporter. The Times claimed Hannah-Jones “inadvertently” posted the reporter’s cell-phone number, even though she left the tweet up for 71 hours and responded to a Twitter user pointing out the number in a joking fashion, indicating she knew her tweet contained the number.
The situation began last week when a Times reporter, Donald McNeil, resigned from the newspaper after he used a racial slur during an educational trip with high school students in Peru. McNeil was asked by one of the students if a classmate should have been suspended for a video she made when she was 12 years old, in which she used a racial slur. McNeil said he asked the student if she had called someone else the slur or was rapping or quoting a book. In doing so, he used the slur himself.
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