‘Lies and hatred spread like wildfire’: Footy fan wrongly branded a racist in social media pile-on

News24 host Chris Kenny exposes a social media backlash against a 59-year-old Adelaide fan who was accused of wearing blackface. “I want to show you a classic example of social media outrage, virtue signalling, and how this leads people to jump to conclusions and seek to condemn or cancel others before knowing the actual facts,” Mr Kenny said. “A Carlton cheer squad post accused this Adelaide cheer squad member of wearing blackface and said what the Eff. “What the tight shots failed to convey was that this 59-year-old woman, clearly a diehard fan, was dressed as a Crow, in fact as Claude Crow, the club's mascot. “It's only a crow costume at the footy, but it tells us plenty about how lies and hatred spread like wildfire in our digital world.”