How Mary Kate Cornett, an 18-Year-Old College Student, Became the Target of a Massive Misogynistic Cyberattack

Barstool’s commentator Jack Mac increased the memes piece on X on February 25, while KFC Barstool (Kevin Clancy Barstool Sports blogger) has also mentioned history in his own personal social media accounts, according to the New York Post. It should be mentioned that Barstool Sports and its various hosts are also known for their misogynist comments.

In response, the founder of Barstool Dave Portnoy said, according to the Job“Barstool Sports has mentioned or distributed this rumor on none of our chains belonging to Barstool as long as I know.” He continued: “Our publishers instinctively made the decision to avoid this story because it seemed that there was a high probability, it could have been manufactured. If I’m wrong about it, I am happy to see where it was published and revisited. ” As for Mac and KFC, Portnoy said: “We do not control the personal social social workers. All they publish alone is their own business. ”

While McAfee and commentators affiliated with the praise of Barst were the most publicized, they were not the only sports commentators to have discussed rumors on their social media accounts and their radio broadcasts, according to the Athletic.

The result was the harassment of Cornett, his boyfriend and their families.

By AthleticsThe personal information of Cornett was shared online and it began to receive harassed and misogynist vocal messages. In addition, his mother’s house in Houston was struck.

On Facebook and a Gofundme page, Cornett and his father, Justin Cornett, published statements refusing rumor and detailing the harassment they had endured because of this.

“I was the victim of a deliberate and coordinated cyber attack spreading categorically false and defamatory information,” said Mary Kate in his declaration. “The partially and fully modified screenshots, the false videos generated by the AI and the manipulated photographs were promoted by irresponsible participants on social media and amplified by thousands of false accounts.”

She continued: “Independent independent influencers irresponsible with apparent links with the sports of Barstool and even public figures like Antonio Brown and Pat McAfee who welcome ESPN University day shared these absolute and complete lies with zero interest in the truth, but in place of the propagation of the bizarre conjecture. No affiliates to these organizations never contacted us comments. More alarming, my personal contact details were illegally equipped publicly shared, endangering my personal security. Many notes sent even suggest that I follow myself.

In his declaration on Facebook, Justin wrote that his daughter “was publicly doxed and that our family was forced to take protective measures to ensure its security … At this point, we suspect that it is a kind of fraternity that has been uncontrollable.

The GoFundme, the two declarations explained, must finance a new foundation to provide resources to other cyber attacks.

Mary Kate Cornett plans to continue a legal action.

Cornett said to Athletic that she plans to bring legal action against ESPN, McAfee and perhaps others. “I would like people to be responsible for what they have done,” she said. “You ruin my life by talking about it in your show for nothing other than attention, but here I stand up until 5 am, every night, throwing, I do not eat because I am so worried about what will happen for the rest of my life.”