A 911 call sent armed police to a quiet home on Oct. 6, but the reported shootings were fiction. The target, writes Ruby Cramer at New Yorkerswas a young woman publicly known only as “Jane Doe.” She’s a Cornell graduate who filed a civil suit alleging she was sexually assaulted by seven members of the Chi Phi fraternity in 2024 — and who is now at the center of a different kind of crisis: mass doxxing, swatting and online vigilantism, with her address and phone number circulating and threats pouring in. His lawyer even hired a private detective from his law firm to guard his house at night.
Cramer recounts how outrage over the alleged assault turned into a hunt not only for the seven named defendants, but for everyone involved in the case. Online vigilantes have falsely named dozens of men on a Snapchat involved the night of the alleged rape. Meanwhile, independent journalist Michael Tracey has made himself a lightning rod by publicly naming Jane Doe, arguing that anonymity allows lawyers to weaponize civil complaints. Tracey himself has now become the target of threats. The article ends with a seemingly endless cycle of online accusations and threats from both sides of the case. Jane Doe, for her part, “was still at home, in her ‘bunker,’ receiving more threatening messages and seeing her name published online.” Read the full story.
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