washingtonpost.com – By Max Ehrenfreund and Antonio Olivo – The arrest of a Salisbury, Md., man accused of giving a well-known journalist a seizure by sending him a flashing image online represents a new kind of prosecution for a new kind of crime. The journalist, Newsweek’s Kurt Eichenwald, suffered a seizure in Dallas after viewing the flashing animation when he received it via Twitter late last year, according to a statement from the Justice Department. Eichenwald had written about his epilepsy and publicly described a similar attack several weeks before the Dec. 15 incident, and authorities said the alleged attacker sent Eichenwald the image in an attempt to hurt him as revenge for what he saw as the reporter’s critical coverage of President Trump.
Seizure-inducing tweet leads to a new kind of prosecution
March 19, 2017
