Toshio Meronek
Toshio Meronek is a journalist focusing on politics, the Bay Area, disability, LGBT/queer issues, and prisons. He covers Silicon Valley for Truthout, and has also reported for Al Jazeera, In These Times, and The Nation. His work has appeared in several anthologies (most recently in Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex). [from: ToshioMeronek.com].
A May 10, 2017 Truthout byline notes that Meronek is currently a Nation Institute grantee investigating the post-prison civil commitment system.
Controversies
Meronek was co-author, with Andrew Szeto of a controversial May 10, 2017 article on Truthout, entitled "YIMBYs: The Alt-Right Darlings of the Real Estate Industry." The title of the article was subsequently retracted and the "Alt-Right" removed.
A follow-up article by Szeto and Merone published as an op-ed in the San Francisco Examiner on May 21, stated:
"In the aftermath of our article’s publication, we have been the subjects of a mass doxing campaign — a common tact used by the alt-right against leftists. Our personal information has been shared widely over the internet, and our employers and publishers harassed, presumably to have us fired."
To investigate this claim, YIMBYwiki searched for internet materials concerning Meronek and/or Szeto published between the May 10 original article and the May 21 followup, on Google, Twitter, Facebook, etc. It appears the above statement in the May 21 article may be referring in part to this May 10 tweet by @maelig commenting generally about the writers' own housing situations. No information constituting 'doxing' in a normal sense of the term was found by our search.
References
- Clark, Laura Foote. "Q&A with 'reporter' Toshio Meronek." Medium, May 15, 2017. https://medium.com/@laurafooteclark/q-a-with-reporter-toshio-meronek-7456527aef90.
- Fierce, Victoria. "The Progressive Disinformation Machine." Medium (draft), May 17, 2017. https://medium.com/@tdfischer_/7281184cac3f.
- Lee, Seung Y. "With development activists compared to the ‘alt-right,’ the housing crisis debate jumped the shark." San Francisco Examiner, May 15, 2017. http://www.sfexaminer.com/development-activists-compared-alt-right-housing-crisis-debate-jumped-shark/.
- Meronek, Toshio. Toshiomeronek.com (personal web site). http://toshiomeronek.com/.
- Meronek, Toshio, and Andrew Szeto. "YIMBYs: The Alt-Right Darlings of the Real Estate Industry." Truthout Report, May 10, 2017. http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/40509-yimbys-the-alt-right-darlings-of-the-real-estate-industry. [note: article title later changed to remove "Alt-Right".
- Shaw, Randy. "Activists' False Anti-Housing Narratives." BeyondChron, May 16, 2017. http://www.beyondchron.org/anti-housing-activists-fake-narratives/.
- Szeto, Andrew, and Toshio Meronek."The problem with YIMBY." San Francisco Examiner, op-ed, May 21, 2017. http://www.sfexaminer.com/the-problem-with-yimby/.
- Sonja Trauss. "One of the authors of the Truthout clusterfuck wrote to me.." Medium, May 16, 2017. https://medium.com/@LocalPolitics/toshio-one-of-the-authors-of-the-truth-out-clusterfuck-wrote-to-me-at-4-10-pm-april-25th-the-day-dd63a11e86ad.