The publisher of a neo-Nazi website who launched a trolling campaign against a Jewish woman and her family should have to pay $14 million in damages, a US judge has said.
US magistrate judge Jeremiah Lynch called the harassment campaign, instigated by the Daily Stormer publisher Andrew Anglin, “egregious and reprehensible”.
Mr Anglin targeted Tanya Gersh, a Jewish estate agent in Whitefish, Montana – a town where the prominent white nationalist Richard Spencer and his family have sometimes lived.
The trolls claimed that Ms Gersh had unfairly “targeted” Mr Spencer’s mother, Sherry Spencer, as her son rose to notoriety as a figure on the American far right, the Guardian reports.
