Right-wing influencers and users of fringe social media platforms over the last few weeks have engaged in a campaign of online harassment, rape apology and misogyny against the woman suing Cornell University over an alleged 2024 gang rape at a frat house, according to a new report from an extremism watchdog.

The analysis, published Wednesday by the nonprofit Global Project Against Hate and Extremism, indicates right-wingers have used the “Cornell Seven” case to broadly malign women who come forward with accusations of sexual assault.

A former Cornell University student, identified in her lawsuit under the pseudonym Jane Doe, has accused the institution and its chapter of the Chi Phi fraternity of failing to punish a group of frat brothers she alleges drugged and raped her for seven hours at a house party in October 2024. Local prosecutors at the time declined to bring charges against any of the alleged perpetrators — a fact that has attracted significant media coverage and online discourse about the handling of sexual assault cases on college campuses.

But the suit has also sparked a “misogynistic frenzy” on the online right primarily aimed at Doe herself, the extremism watchdog organization said in its report.

“As new details about the case were released in September and October, bigots online rushed to the defense of the alleged perpetrators and attacked Jane Doe and other survivors of sexual assault,” the analysis read. That vitriol in turn led to ‘an onslaught of attacks against women, victims of sexual assault, and those who believe them.’”

Attacks on Doe run the gamut of right-wing influencers and media figures.

Matt Walsh, a conservative podcaster who has said the Cornell Seven case was an “act of debauchery” and is evidence for sex-based segregation in schools, also claimed the alleged gang rape was “fully consensual” and that “sex can be immoral and degrading even when it is consensual.”

Walsh has further said that Doe’s accusations stem from a sense of guilt. “Since her real problem is guilt, not trauma, the real solution is to repent of her sins,” he said in a Sept. 30 video clip.

Far-right podcaster and white nationalist Nick Fuentes referred to Doe as “the Cornell Slut” in an Oct. 1 post on X and said she should be imprisoned for, what he claims, falsely accusing the fraternity brothers of rape. His post received roughly 70K likes. And manosphere kingpin Andrew Tate compared the Cornell Seven suit to the Salem Witch Trials, writing in his own post that “a woman can point at a man with a baseless accusation and destroy her life.”

On fringe right-wing social media platforms, including 4Chan, Truth Social and Rumble, mentions of the Cornell Seven case increased by 842% between Sept. 28 and Oct. 2, the watchdog org said in its report. Users exhibited “violently misogynistic” beliefs about Doe and the alleged rape, writing in some cases that the fraternity brothers “did nothing wrong” and that Doe “is crying rape because her boyfriend found out she was a whore.”

“The Cornell Gang Rape is having a profound impact on millions of women,” read another comment quoted in the watchdog report. “Many women are jealous they aren’t living out their rape fantasies in real life.”

Contemporaneous Snapchat messages from October 2024 show the frat brothers referring to the alleged rape, with one writing, “You can just walk in and whip it out.” Doe in a 2024 police report said that she’d used marijuana and ketamine with some of the men and was falling in and out of consciousness at points during the incident.

Her lawsuit alleges she was pressured by the frat brothers to keep using ketamine and eventually became “completely incapacitated.”

Right-wingers online, meanwhile, were so incensed by the Cornell Seven case that some even threatened Doe with doxxing — a term that refers to revealing identifying or sensitive information about a person online.

Political commentator Michael Tracey issued a public call to anyone who knew Doe’s real name, claiming it was “100% permitted” for him to publish it under the First Amendment and that he’d be “happy” to do so.

Tracey later posted what he said was Doe’s true name but later deleted it. The watchdog report pointed out that reports of violent threats against the woman, aimed at pressuring her to drop her lawsuit, came out just two days after Tracey’s apparent doxxing.

Doe’s lawyer, New York-based Attorney Thomas Giuffra, told HuffPost the findings of the watchdog report were “tragic.”

“I think most Americans would not care to be supportive of the views of women held by neo-Nazis, White Supremacists and Andrew Tate,” said Giuffra in a statement. “As usual, any efforts at a unifying positivity are being drowned out by the misogynistic noise of a minority of unhappy cranks.”

The attorney added that the “overwhelming majority” of Americans support his client and stand for stronger protections for women on college campuses.

“This is a basic right we owe our mothers, sisters, daughters and loved ones,” he said.

Giuffra has cited dozens of threats against his client, telling CNN Wednesday that Doe on Oct. 6 was “swatted,” a practice in which an anonymous person calls police tactical teams to someone’s home as a scare tactic or threat. The incident frightened her so badly that she covered the windows of her parents’ home with paper, Giuffra said.

The attorney also cited an anonymous call to his office Wednesday in which a man urges Doe to withdraw her case, “otherwise blood will be shed.”

Though prosecutors declined to press charges in 2024, the state of New York has reopened an investigation into the case. Gov. Kathy Hochul last week appointed state Attorney General Letitia James as a special prosecutor overseeing the probe.

President Donald Trump, a longtime political foe of James who has himself been accused of rape and found liable for sexual assault in a civil case, lamented the appointment at the White House. He told reporters that the Empire State’s top prosecutor was “a corrupt person” and the alleged perpetrators “won’t get a fair shake.”

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