Internet trolls who crash Zoom-based AA meetings with racist slurs, porn and Nazi propaganda “don’t fully grasp that this is something that people really need”
Philip McGrade was attending an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting over the videoconferencing service Zoom when a message suddenly appeared on the screen. “Hitler did nothing wrong,” it read.
Next, scenes from Leni Riefenstahl’s Nazi propaganda film “Triumph of the Will” started playing. A person yelled “Allahu akbar,” and pornography popped into view. He logged out, joined a different AA meeting and within a few minutes a similar attack began there, too.
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