Meet the woman behind Libs of TikTok, secretly fueling the right’s outrage machine - Chaya Raichik

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Chaya Raichik had been working as a real estate salesperson in Brooklyn when, in early November 2020, she created the account that would eventually become Libs of TikTok.
Under her first handle @shaya69830552, she minimized covid, cast doubt on the election results and promoted a dubious story about a child sex trafficking ring. On Nov. 23, 2020, Raichik changed handles, this time going by @shaya_ray and identifying herself publicly as a real estate investor in Brooklyn. She began doubling down on election fraud conspiracies using QAnon-related language. Early that December, she joked about launching a clothing line titled “voter fraud is real.”


In January 2021, Raichik started talking about traveling to D.C. to support Trump on Jan. 6 at the Stop the Steal rally. When violence broke out at the Capitol that day, she tweeted a play-by-play account claiming to be on the ground. “They were rubber bullets from law enforcement. 1 hit right next to me,” she said. She posted videos from the crowd and spoke of tear gas being deployed nearby.

Jail time sounds fine for another domestic terrorist.
 
When a reporter called the phone number registered to Raichik’s real estate profile and LibofTikTok.us, the woman who answered hung up after the reporter identified herself as calling from The Washington Post. A woman at the address listed to Raichik’s name in Los Angeles declined to identify herself. On Monday night, a tweet from Glenn Greenwald confirmed the house that was visited belonged to Raichik’s family.​
Typical.
 
Funny how all of her information has been completely scrubbed from the internet and everybody is all over the lady that found all of it out accusing her of doxing her.

First off, as T1 pointed out many times before, there is no such thing as doxing in the United States unless you're a minor or a government official with a classified address / phone number.

Secondly, if she posts as a news organization (which libsoftictok is a registered news source now) then you're fair game.
 
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Apparently notoriety isn't her style...
 
It never is.

Just like the people the original site uncovered: they would run around like a chicken with its head cut off. They'd scramble to delete things, create new identities, change names and avatars and the like, cry for support from their fellow trolls.

That's the whole thing about anonymity: it makes people do things they otherwise would never do because, as T1 so eloquently put it, "deep down inside they're just a bunch of chicken shit mother fuckers".

I remember telling a former frequenter of this site: Why would you care if they know who you are? What are they going to find out? That you're a successful guy with a good job and a nice place to live that plays video games from time to time and hates the assholes that ruin it? You know what they're not going to find out? They're not going to find out you're a TK'er, or a cheater, or a liar or a racists or a sick, sexual deviant. That's them. It's who they are. That's why they panic.
 
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