Brandy Zadrozny is a reporter for NBC News, and appears to have made a specialty of doxing Trump supporters. While Revolver reporter Darren J. Beattie tends towards superlatives, he is, as the kids like to say, "not wrong."
Beattie goes on, finding she uses,
"paid, dark-data search engines to dox the personal information of anonymous Trump supporters online - obtaining PROPERTY RECORDS, PHONE information, and even their AMAZON WISH LISTS."
That chill you just felt run up your spine? Not to worry, that's how you know you are still a normal human being with a soul that does not resemble a lump of charcoal.
Did I mention she's a reporter? For NBC?
And did I mention she honed her skills at Media Matters? Did I really have to?
She's good at her job, too. In the comments appears none other than Laurel Austin, a mother of six (oh how they loathe the fertile) with a short tweet about her own experience with Zadrozny (language warning, first sentence.)
She sounds pretty unhappy about the experience.
Do you have anything to worry about? Not at all! Zadrozny will respect your privacy as long as you remain obscure and uninfluential. But Lord help you if you get any notoriety or, heaven forbid, get a retweet from the President as happened to the Columbia Bugle. Then, you've become dangerous. Now you must be stopped.
You might be assuming that Zadrozny is understandably ashamed of exposing the personal information of private citizens for merely exercising their first-amendment rights and that she did her best to hide her nefarious acts.
No, not really. She finds these "juicy stories," to be her "favorite kind."
She even wrote a manual for others to use detailing how you go about ruining a person's life, such as this heartwarming passage:
"Birthdays are just one example. Weddings, funerals, holidays, anniversaries, graduations — nearly every major life marker is celebrated on social media. These provide an opening for searching and investigating an account."
She's using your family's funerals to dig up dirt on you.
How about dear old mom and dad? Another opening!
"…often moms and dads… will post about their children's birthdays."
Another potential score!
Basically, think of the most intrusive and disturbing acts imaginable, and you know how Zadrozny spends her days.
Who would have thought that the Toobin story would only be the second most creepy thing you read this week?