He said he was trying to defuse a confrontation between them and another group. On Sunday, additional video showed that Phillips had walked up to the teenagers. Many viewers believed the teens were attempting to taunt the elder, Nathan Phillips. Passions ran high on social media Saturday after video emerged of several students from Covington, many of whom were wearing “Make America Great Again” hats, surrounding a Native American elder who was in Washington, D.C. Therefore, as of January 21, 2019, we have severed ties with Abriss.”Īlso Read: GQ Writer Regrets Tweet Calling for Covington Students to Be Doxxed “While we appreciated his work, it is clear that he is no longer aligned with our company’s core values of respect and tolerance. He worked with the company in our post-production department and never as a writer,” the company said in a statement to TheWrap on Monday. “We were surprised and upset to see the inflammatory and offensive rhetoric used on Erik Abriss’ Twitter account this weekend. Aside from his job as a post-production supervisor at INE, Erik Abriss is a contributor to New York Media’s pop culture site Vulture. Representatives for Vulture declined to comment.Digital company INE Entertainment has fired a journalist who publicly wished for the death of several Covington Catholic High School students and their parents in a pair of tweets over the weekend. And their parents,” Abriss said in a tweet on Saturday. “I don’t know what it says about me but I’ve truly lost the ability to articulate the hysterical rage, nausea, and heartache this makes me feel. At the height of the furor, Vulture contributor Erik Abriss tweeted out his wish to see all of the Covington teenagers and their parents die. “Posting or encouraging others to post a person’s private information without their express permission is a direct violation of the Twitter Rules,” a representative clarified.įriedman is not the only writer at a major news outlet to issue a passionate response to the Covington Catholic students. (The company later told TheWrap that their original position on Friedman’s tweet had been in error and that calling for Twitter users to be doxxed was, in fact, a violation.) “Posting a person’s private information without their express permission is a direct violation of the Twitter Rules,” the company told TheWrap. A rep for GQ’s parent company, Condé Nast, did not immediately respond to a request for comment from TheWrap.Ī Twitter representative told TheWrap that Friedman’s call to doxx was not a violation of the company’s terms of service and that only the action itself would be a violation - for the doxxer, not the person who called for doxxing. His most recent piece for the site went up Monday. He later said in another post to a separate Twitter user: “ tried to get me doxxed for saying people should be doxxed, that’s not hypocritical at all.”Īlso Read: Vulture Writer on Covington Students: 'I Just Want These People to Die, Simple as That'įriedman is a frequent contributor GQ. When RealDailyWire senior editor Emily Zanotti tweeted Saturday to urge those upset with the students not to dox them by revealing their personal information, Friedman replied: “Doxx ‘em all.” His tweet is archived here.
One of the teens, Nick Sandmann, issued a statement saying he had not sought the confrontation and bore no ill will to Phillips.
It’s counterproductive to say anything along those lines and if you make yourself look like an irrational, mean idiot you’re playing right into their hands.Īlso Read: Covington High Student Says He Never Sought Staredown With Native American Elder It partly came from having been doxxed by MAGA people myself but that’s no excuse and no one should wish that on anybody else. It was an irresponsible and stupid tweet that happened in the heat of the moment because I was upset. In a statement to TheWrap, GQ’s Nathaniel Friedman wrote: A GQ writer says he regrets a now-deleted tweet in which he called for doxxing the Covington Catholic High School students involved in a confrontation with a Native American elder.
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