‘I had threats to my life’: how mob attacks on social media are silencing UK teachers

A British offshoot of a Trump-supporting network is among those targeting educators they regard as ‘woke’

When Gemma Parker, a secondary school teacher, tweeted about teaching students about racism earlier this year, she wasn’t prepared for the flood of abuse she unleashed. A rightwing activist group flagged her as a dangerous teacher, and within hours she had been labelled a “Nazi sympathiser” and a “child abuser”, as thousands of people waded in to attack her.

“I was teaching a class and I kept getting calls from friends asking if I was all right. When I finally checked there were thousands of responses.”

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