Joy Reid defense
A quasi legal but technologically illiterate attempt to blame embarrassing or incriminating social media or blogging activity on 'hacking' by a sophisticated, imaginary third party. E.g:
“I learned that an unknown, external party accessed and manipulated material from my now-defunct blog, The Reid Report, to include offensive and hateful references that are fabricated and run counter to my personal beliefs and ideology,”
“I learned that an unknown, external party accessed and manipulated material from my now-defunct blog, The Reid Report, to include offensive and hateful references that are fabricated and run counter to my personal beliefs and ideology,”
A: hey so as you know I'm totally stoked about running for office this fall but it turns out some random guy 'hacked' my Facebook and posted a bunch of racist shit like 5 years ago but I only just noticed now.
B: ok but that seems kind of implausible so did that actually happen or are you just Joy Reid defense'ing me right now?
A: ...
B: ok but that seems kind of implausible so did that actually happen or are you just Joy Reid defense'ing me right now?
A: ...