Owen Jones sent revolting homophobic abuse

Even Katy Montgomerie says its pretty obvious the account was hacked! How embarrassing for OJ, he is supposed to be a journalist and an avid Twitter user and he can't even spot a hacked account from 50 paces (or maybe he could but didn't give a shit).

I haven't seen any apology from him yet, I won't hold my breath.

Really? Fucking hell sometimes I hate to be right

Ah OK. I thought it might have been in the media or something. Thank you!

That's pretty much what he tweeted yesterday.

The place the woman works has posted on Twitter. Another woman has posted saying that the account holder said she had a new boyfriend on Facebook the day before the horrible messages were sent and that her ex had deleted his Twitter and 'sanitised' his social media.

it means LOJ hasn’t got that ear/eye for evidence and proof that a properly trained journalist has.

Yes but, more importantly, he identifies as a journalist. So what if he has no training and doesn't behave like a journalist 'should'? He's bravely expanding that bandwidth of journalism.

Or indeed any human with a functioning brain.

Exactly. I've not had the privilege of an Oxford education nor am I a journalist. Add in that I still don't get how twitter works yet I was able to deduce pretty quickly that this account was hacked. I would go further and say I was quite sure those hate tweets were written by a man but that's purely an instinct.

it means LOJ hasn’t got that ear/eye for evidence and proof that a properly trained journalist has.

Or indeed any human with a functioning brain.

Are the details about the account being hacked and so on in any way public? I'm trying to get my head around this and about how people know what happened.

I'm expecting a "Well I'm sorry I wrongly accused this woman. But if you terfs weren't so horrible, I would never have suspected her in the first place."

Something like that.

Well of course, women are responsible for the behaviour of male homophobes. And male anything else's as well.

Of course he doesn't give a shit, Lynn. That's abundantly clear. Women are just props that are either useful or damaging to his arguments.

Yep.

One would have thought that the critical thinking and assessment of primary and secondary sources required as part of reading history (at the University of Oxford, IIRC) would have gone some way towards filling that gap.

Also, he's rapidly approaching middle-age, but he's not that old. He grew up with the internet. Why has he no 'ear' for the abrupt shift in tone of a hijacked social media account? It happens all the time.

Sorry pressed post too soon.

it means LOJ hasn’t got that ear/eye for evidence and proof that a properly trained journalist has.

Thing is, AFAIK, LOJ has never done the full traditional training as a journalist. He went straight in as a “commentator.”

I’m reminded of the debacle of Johann Hari at the Independent (I think) a decade ago …

Hmm.

I'm glad it's been investigated further, looks like a hack, awful thing to do and say. I hope they trace the ip address.

LOJ has just had a mini rant on Jeremy Vine, about this very subject (unrelated to the subject they were discussing).

Yes - well said, Jane from Liverpool! Predictably, he said his little piece in response, making it sound like she was anti-trans rights rather than pro-women's rights and that he was a nice, kind person battling against hatred and intolerance; and then she was swiftly cut off

You'd think such a committed left-wing activist would be distraught over the possibility that he might have been exploited in an attempt to get a woman unfairly dismissed from her workplace for something she didn't do.

Well he hasn't apologised for trying to track down the poor abused schoolgirl and he hadn't taken down his Facebook post even after all his followers found out who the woman was and were trying to get her fired. And still didn't take it down when her employers posted to say that they didn't think she'd done it.

So no, on the current evidence I'd say no, he's not going to apologise or retract.

Never forget how much he really, really hates women.

Of course he doesn't give a shit, Lynn. That's abundantly clear. Women are just props that are either useful or damaging to his arguments.

Can I just check that all the outrage about LOJ encouraging tweets about the incident of the girl bullied at school have stopped?

Jesus Christ, if this is a revenge hacking from an ex boyfriend that Owen Jones has then highlighted to a million people then that is just terrible.

But now I am wondering if OJ will even give a shit? Surely he will have to publicly apologise?

I hope she's okay. And yes, one would hope that people would think for just a moment before instigating a witch-hunt.

Woild not be at all shocked if an abusive man was behind it. If he has something to do with this, I hope there are consequences for it.

Hope that this is a lesson for the "journalist" who organised a witch hunt on cue at the behest of an abusive man.