Emily Wilder, the journalist fired from the Associated Press for an undisclosed violation of the organization’s social media policy, says she was “canceled” and the organization caved into a “witch hunt” against her.
“There’s no question I was just canceled,” Wilder told SFGATE. “This is exactly the issue with the rhetoric around ‘cancel culture.’ To Republicans, cancel culture is usually seen as teens or young people online advocating that people be held accountable over accusations of racism or whatever it may be, but when it comes down to who actually has to deal with the lifelong ramifications of the selective enforcement of cancel culture — specifically over the issue of Israel and Palestine — it’s always the same side.”