The MNHQ Moderation team

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Dear MNHQ

I'm very grateful for the commitment to free speech you've publicly taken, and for Justine's courage this week.

A former disgruntled employee of MN is writing on Twitter about the 'transphobia' of MN staff, and calling you TERFs. She is showing a great deal of bias and intolerance towards women with feminist views, this may well be her honest opinion, which is no big deal I suppose, since she is no longer an employee.

At least, it isn't an issue until she calls a shout out to her
'friends who still work at MN' to report and take down posts by 'transphobic scum', by which she appears to be referring to any poster objecting to being called TERF by her friend.

Regardless of the personal views of the MNHQ staff, who should be as free to hold their own views as I am mine, I am disturbed that there may be a small contingent of employees who are invested in unfair moderation and will not be applying fair-handed principles, at least if the claims of this ex-employee are credible.

Can you please give posters some reassurance that the difficult job of fair-handed moderation isn't being abused by the 'friends' of ex-employees who are 'reporting it all' and taking down posts because any gender criticism means the poster is 'transphobic scum'?

Thank you.

If she is investigated will her devices and online activity be checked for collaborators? I mean if it is possible that 'friends' here are slipping her data, will that form part of any investigation?

Janie made a good point there @MNHQ If this person's internship ended in March then why are some of the screenshots dated April? She must be getting them from someone else and that person must still work there.

I can imagine that Emma's "friends at MNHQ" are also bricking it.

I think you probably should be, you nanas.

Hope MNHQ have drafted the contracts for their interns nice and tightly, and their policies, and they go after Emma like hyenas for stealing data.

Users here granted mumsnet the right to use their data, Emma, not you, you silly girl.

The irony of her utter disregard for the data of others, only for her to block and protect her own tweets! Outrageous.

Anyone else frantically checking their personal data? I am happy to see that I haven't filled in any detail about myself and that my email address is relatively anonymous.

I am actually thanking my controlling ex-husband for his behaviour as it made me very careful not to be identified on here.

LovesMaltesers Thank you for the information. I thought things like email addresses would be safe, perhaps I've been extraordinarily naive. I think I probably have.

I cant see anything about her university and I'm not clicking her WordPress link and potentially giving her another way to track data.

I can see that she "does stuff with pubs and policy". What policy and how?

What policy and how?

Hope to god it's not data protection policies! Think she's about to get a crash course in them, mind you.

This is hugely concerning.

Bloody hell.

Diversity officer eh

barracker thank you. I would hope mumsnet will contact anyone whose data has been publicised too.

This is hugely worrying. The fact that staff were able to take screen shots of sensitive data is a big problem for MNHQ. I would expect that their contracts allow them to take action against any member of staff doing that.
Thank you for looking into it MNHQ, it must be a nightmare at the moment and I really appreciate you standing by women and allowing discussion about this.

I've now DMd 3 out of the 4 posters who appeared to have been screengrabbed whilst Emma Healey was logged in as a mod with user detail access like IP addresses. The 4th poster can't be reached by DM but I hope she finds this thread herself and can contact MNHQ about it herself.

I obviously have no idea how many other screengrabs Emma took whilst in her role, only the ones she publicised on twitter.

Wow. Deleting and protecting tweets isn’t going to do much good. She’ll have broken a confidentiality agreement, stolen intellectual property and broken data protection laws.
Foolish, foolish girl.

Anyone can take screen shots of anything. There’s not much a company can do to stop it as it’s a basic function of IT. The agreements signed when you start work are what protect you Legally and most decent people abide by the rules.

Bloody hell how foolish can you be?

Ok, but stop putting her info on here. Even if it is publically available

Looking at the link posted by RefuseToDenounceBiology I can see why she was motivated to do what she did and sees so much as transphobic