I saw this happen live and I couldn't believe it. There was this Netflix movie last year called "Kate" that has a white female assassin killing a lot of asian people (it takes place in Tokyo). There were a handful of articles (first in places like Yahoo news and then sites like Slate.com) written about how this is racist and they all quoted people on twitter. Since I was following this movie heavily, I saw the tweets come in real time and the subsequent articles written a day later. In the end it all started from one tweet from a random user which then spread into a small handful other people making a similar comment and then leaving it at that. These tweets then got turned into multiple articles. I could not believe how crazy the whole thing was.

The original tweet author did not give permission for her thoughts to be published in so many articles and apparently endured a lot of harassment(She indicated this on subsequent tweets). She eventually deleted the tweet.

This was the original tweet: "Shame on Netflix for this. After this past year especially, to then release a film that is literally white people murdering Asian people based on stereotypes and fetishization??? Hard pass.”

If you google that quote you'll see how many articles quote that tweet.

There were no winners in this whole saga. The movie takes place in Tokyo so of course asian men are going to be the bad guys. So Netflix endured negative press for nothing. The press didn't actually change anything about the film, it obviously pissed off enough people that it caused them to start looking for the tweet author to harass her and finally she deleted her tweet. Who were the winners? The site owners making the money I guess. The whole thing really shows how much of a joke online media is. When regular establishment press is not that good either, what are people to do?