One Sunday morning two years ago, Amanda Jones, a middle school librarian in Watson, La., woke up and saw an email on her phone that left her shaking and breathless.
The expletive-laced message from a stranger accused her of being a pedophile and a groomer, and concluded with a threat: 鈥淵ou can鈥檛 hide. We know where you work + live. You have a LARGE target on your back,鈥 it said. 鈥淐lick 鈥 Click 鈥 see you soon!鈥
It was part of a deluge of online threats and harassment that Jones has faced since the summer of 2022, when she was one of around 20 people to speak out against book banning during a July meeting at her local public library.
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