The Rise and Fall of Yik Yak, the Anonymous Messaging App [telecom]

The Rise and Fall of Yik Yak, the Anonymous Messaging App

By VALERIYA SAFRONOVA

The app, which shut down in April, was plagued by bad press from the beginning, earning itself a reputation as a place for racism, sexism, bullying and bomb threats.

This month, two feminist groups and several former students filed a federal complaint accusing the University of Mary Washington in Virginia and its former president, Richard Hurley, of failing to protect the female plaintiffs from cyber harassment and threats of physical and sexual violence during their time at the university.

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