Camerawoman who tripped migrant attacks social media

BUDAPEST: There are a number of ways to establish infamy on the Internet, but almost all of them begin with a single phrase, photo or video clip. Often, it takes just one shareable link for a previously unknown individual to become a digital pariah.
Petra Laszlo learned this the hard way after she was caught on tape kicking Syrian refugees and tripping a man with a child in his arms as he fled a Hungarian camp in September. The Hungarian camerawoman, who was subsequently sacked from her position at N1TV, quickly became a symbol for Europe’s harsh treatment of migrants attempting to escape the war in Syria.
Enraged social media groups — among them a “Petra Laszlo Shame Wall” with over 10,000 likes on Facebook — were already dedicated to assailing her actions.
Having failed to garner sympathy in the court of public opinion, Laszlo told the Russian newspaper Izvestia on Wednesday that she plans to file lawsuits against both Facebook and Osama Abdul Mohsen, the refugee she tripped. “(My husband and I) believe Facebook played a major role in my situation,” Laszlo said, according to Al Jazeera. “It helped embitter people against me ... It is now a matter of honor.”
Laszlo blames Facebook for allegedly failing to take down threatening and negative pages about her created on the social network, saying in her interview with Izvestia that people made fake profiles under her name and threatened to kill or rape her.
While she has tried reaching out to Facebook’s administrators to get the pages taken down, Laszlo said, no actions have been taken.