Wednesday, August 14, 2019

NYMag's headline says "We Talked to the Teen Who Tweeted From Her Fridge After Her Mom Took Her Phone," but...




Intelligencer:
Of course, there’s no way to easily determine whether Dorothy is who she appears to be, or whether the story of how her mother confiscated her phone is true.

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After the #FreeDorothy saga went viral, some Twitter users who were in group chats with Dorothy alleged that she had managed multiple accounts and made offensive comments.

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Dorothy spoke to me using her cousin’s old iPod, which she said she didn’t have a charger for. With the battery on its last legs, she told me she had to log off.