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'''StoneToss''' is a pseudonymous American [[neo-Nazi]] [[political cartoonist]] who publishes a [[webcomic]] of the same name.<ref name="Gilbert-2024" /><ref name="Oremus-2024">{{cite news |last1=Oremus |first1=Will |last2=Telford |first2=Taylor |title=Musk tried to 'punish' critics, judge rules, in tossing a lawsuit |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/03/25/musk-x-lawsuit-slapp-center-digital-hate/ |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |access-date=March 27, 2024 |date=March 25, 2024 |quote=... after she amplified the identity of anonymous neo-Nazi comic artist StoneToss. |archive-date=March 25, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240325194252/https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/03/25/musk-x-lawsuit-slapp-center-digital-hate/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Stall" /><ref name="Hart-2021" /> Launched in June 2017, the comic espouses [[racist]], [[sexist]], [[transphobic]], [[homophobic]], and [[antisemitic]] views, including [[Holocaust denial]],<ref name="Beschizza-2024" /><ref name="Gilmour-2019">{{cite news |last1=Gilmour |first1=David |title=Antifa redditors are repurposing anti-Semitic comics for good |url=https://www.dailydot.com/debug/antifa-redditors-subvert-stonetoss/ |access-date=March 17, 2024 |work=[[The Daily Dot]] |date=May 31, 2019 |archive-date=March 6, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240306230121/https://www.dailydot.com/debug/antifa-redditors-subvert-stonetoss/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Ingram-2024" /> under what the author claims is "edgy humor", using "simple and colorful imagery".<ref name="Gilbert-2024" /><ref name="Hart-2021" /><ref name="Gilmour-2019" />
In March 2024, after an [[antifascist]] group published materials claiming to have [[Doxing|revealed his identity]],<ref name="Beschizza-2024" /><ref name="Crimmins-2024" /> he sought help from [[Twitter]]'s owner [[Elon Musk]]. Twitter then suspended multiple users who included StoneToss' alleged real name in their tweets, and amended its privacy policy to prohibit disclosure of others' real names.<ref name="Gilbert-2024" /><ref name="Ingram-2024" /> Critics took the move as evidence of Musk's preferential treatment for neo-Nazis, antisemites, and white supremacists.<ref name="Ingram-2024" />
== Career<span class="anchor" id="Webcomic"></span> ==
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== Alleged revelation of identity ==
In March 2024, Anonymous Comrades Collective and Late-Night Anti-Fascists claimed to have [[Doxing|revealed the identity]] of StoneToss using leaked information from [[Gab (social network)|Gab]], a social media website with a far-right userbase.<ref name="Beschizza-2024">{{cite news |last1=Beschizza |first1=Rob |title=Nazi cartoonist meets the Streisand Effect after Twitter censors discussion of his identity |url=https://boingboing.net/2024/03/16/nazi-cartoonist-meets-the-streisand-effect-after-twitter-censors-discussion-of-his-identity.html |access-date=March 17, 2024 |work=[[Boing Boing]] |date=March 16, 2024 |archive-date=March 16, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240316214251/https://boingboing.net/2024/03/16/nazi-cartoonist-meets-the-streisand-effect-after-twitter-censors-discussion-of-his-identity.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Crimmins-2024">{{cite news |last1=Crimmins |first1=Tricia |title=Author of far-right comic StoneToss allegedly doxed by left-wing reporting collective |url=https://www.dailydot.com/debug/stonetoss-comics-identity-doxxed/ |access-date=March 17, 2024 |work=[[The Daily Dot]] |date=March 13, 2024 |archive-date=March 17, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240317014552/https://www.dailydot.com/debug/stonetoss-comics-identity-doxxed/ |url-status=live }}</ref> According to the material they published, he is a Texan former security guard and IT professional,<ref name="Wiggins-2024">{{cite web |last1=Wiggins |first1=Christopher |title=Alejandra Caraballo banned from Elon Musk's X platform |url=https://www.advocate.com/media/alejandra-caraballo-banned-x |website=[[The Advocate (magazine)|The Advocate]] |access-date=March 19, 2024 |language=en |date=March 19, 2024 |archive-date=March 19, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240319215846/https://www.advocate.com/media/alejandra-caraballo-banned-x |url-status=live }}</ref> who had been putting significant effort into remaining anonymous.<ref name="Beschizza-2024" /> The group said that he had also created the ''RedPanels'' webcomic,<ref name="Beschizza-2024" /><ref name="Gilbert-2024">{{cite magazine |last1=Gilbert |first1=David |title=X Blocked Journalists and Researchers Who Identified a Neo-Nazi Cartoonist |url=https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-x-blocked-journalists-researchers-neo-nazi-cartoonist/ |magazine=Wired |access-date=March 28, 2024 |date=March 20, 2024 |archive-date=March 28, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240328123632/https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-x-blocked-journalists-researchers-neo-nazi-cartoonist/ |url-status=live }}</ref> described by the [[Southern Poverty Law Center]] as a neo-Nazi comic<ref>{{cite web |last1=Ward |first1=Justin |title=Day of the trope: White nationalist memes thrive on Reddit's r/The_Donald |url=https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2018/04/19/day-trope-white-nationalist-memes-thrive-reddits-rthedonald |website=[[Southern Poverty Law Center]] |access-date=March 19, 2024 |language=en |date=April 19, 2018 |archive-date=February 1, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190201162606/https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2018/04/19/day-trope-white-nationalist-memes-thrive-reddits-rthedonald |url-status=live }}</ref> and by Matt Binder of [[Mashable]] as "even more overtly pro-Nazi" than ''StoneToss''.<ref name="Binder-2024">{{cite web |last1=Binder |first1=Matt |title=Elon Musk's X suspends users who post alleged name of alt-right comic creator |url=https://mashable.com/article/elon-musk-x-twitter-suspending-users-posting-stonetoss-name |website=[[Mashable]] |access-date=21 March 2024 |language=en |date=20 March 2024 |archive-date=March 21, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240321033706/https://mashable.com/article/elon-musk-x-twitter-suspending-users-posting-stonetoss-name |url-status=live }}</ref> {{As of|03|2024|alt=As of late March|post=,}} media organizations reporting on the event have been indicating that they have not independently verified the results of the groups' research.{{r|Ingram-2024|at=n.pag.|q=NBC News has not confirmed the identity of the person behind Stonetoss, and the Stonetoss account did not immediately respond to a request for comment Thursday.}}{{r|Binder-2024|at=n.pag.|q=Mashable has not independently confirmed the identity of StoneToss}}
StoneToss denied being a neo-Nazi<ref name="Ingram-2024" /> and sought protection from Twitter's owner Elon Musk through individuals who had contacts with him.<ref name="Gilbert-2024" /> This was followed by a controversy after Twitter [[Twitter suspensions|suspended]] multiple users who posted the author's alleged real name, with media taking special note of civil rights attorney and transgender rights activist [[Alejandra Caraballo]]'s suspension.<ref name="Wiggins-2024" /><ref name="Beschizza-2024" /><ref>{{cite web |last1=Sprayregen |first1=Molly |title=Elon Musk shamed for protecting an alt-right cartoonist while letting transphobia flourish on X |url=https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/03/elon-musk-shamed-for-protecting-an-alt-right-cartoonist-while-letting-transphobia-flourish-on-x/ |website=[[LGBTQ Nation]] |access-date=March 19, 2024 |date=March 18, 2024 |archive-date=March 19, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240319013419/https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/03/elon-musk-shamed-for-protecting-an-alt-right-cartoonist-while-letting-transphobia-flourish-on-x/ |url-status=live }}</ref>{{efn|She had tweeted and changed her username to the effect of maximizing the visibility of the disclosed information.<ref name="Oremus-2024" /><ref name="Wiggins-2024" />}} [[Rob Beschizza]] of ''[[Boing Boing]]'' commented that, while "no-one outside of [[extremely online]] spaces cares", the controversy was intensified via the [[Streisand effect]].<ref name="Beschizza-2024" /> The episode was followed by renewed concerns about content moderation on [[Twitter under Elon Musk|Twitter under Musk]], especially regarding content that promotes far-right ideas.<ref name="Wiggins-2024" /> After a few days, Twitter amended its privacy policy—which at the time expressly excluded real names from what it considers private information—to prohibit disclosure of others' real names. As this behavior had been previously tolerated when it came from right-wing accounts, critics took the move as evidence of the platform under Musk affording preferential treatment to that group of users.<ref name="Ingram-2024" /><ref>{{cite web |last1=Wiggins |first1=Christopher |title=X quietly updates policy on doxxing after neo-Nazi reveal |url=https://www.advocate.com/technology/x-doxxing-policy-update |website=The Advocate |access-date=22 March 2024 |language=en |date=March 21, 2024 |archive-date=March 22, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240322100650/https://www.advocate.com/technology/x-doxxing-policy-update |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=X sperrt Konten, die die Identität eines rechtsextremen Cartoonisten enthüllen |trans-title=X blocks accounts that reveal the identity of a right-wing cartoonist |url=https://www.derstandard.de/story/3000000212636/x-sperrt-konten-die-die-identitaet-eines-rechtsextremen-cartoonisten-enthuellen |website=Der Standard |access-date=March 21, 2024 |language=de |date=March 21, 2024 |archive-date=March 21, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240321155024/https://www.derstandard.de/story/3000000212636/x-sperrt-konten-die-die-identitaet-eines-rechtsextremen-cartoonisten-enthuellen |url-status=live }}</ref>
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