网络侦探在康奈尔大学强奸案后错误地将名为温斯顿·李的亚洲人作为目标，向无辜者发送威胁、辱骂和虚假指控。
Online sleuths wrongly targeted Asians named Winston Lee after a Cornell rape case, sending threats, abuse, and false accusations to innocent people.
一名华裔美国人和一名印尼男子表示他们与此案无关，并呼吁人们在发帖或指控前核实身份。
One Chinese American and one Indonesian man said they were not involved and asked people to verify identities before posting or accusing.
专家警告称，社交媒体暴民可能伤害无辜者，传播错误线索，损害工作，而真实案件应通过刑事程序处理。
Experts warned that social media mobs can harm the innocent, spread false leads, and damage jobs, while the real case is handled through the criminal process.
AI生成 华盛顿 — — 一条消息告诉他“去死吧。”其他人说他该被关进监狱。死亡威胁接连不断。
AI generated WASHINGTON - One message told him to “go to hell.”Others said he deserved to be imprisoned. Death threats poured in.
与一名被指控强奸美国大学生的男子同名的亚洲人遭遇了网络辱骂的洪流。
Asians who share a name with one of the men accused of raping a US university student have faced a torrent of online abuse.
一起涉及康奈尔大学学生的所谓2024年集体强奸案，在最近的一起诉讼中被详细披露，引发了对七名被指控施暴者的愤怒。
The alleged 2024 gang rape of a Cornell University student, detailed in a recent lawsuit, has sparked an outpouring of outrage against the seven accused perpetrators.
此案促使网络侦探们在网络上搜寻数字足迹，以寻找线索追踪嫌疑人。
The case has sent internet sleuths scouring digital footprints for clues to track them down.
其中一名被指控者是一名被美国媒体识别为温斯顿·李的韩国男子。问题是，世界上到处都是叫温斯顿·李的人。
One of the accused is a Korean man identified by US media as Winston Lee. The problem is that the world is full of people named Winston Lee.
对那些与这名男子同名的人的误导愤怒，其中一些人居住在美国境外且长相与被指控者毫无相似之处，暴露了混乱互联网的危险——那些不信任公共机构的人变成了数字侦探。
The rage misdirected at people who share that name, some of whom live outside the United States and look nothing like the accused, lays bare the perils of a chaotic internet, where people distrustful of public institutions become digital detectives.
被错误识别的人之一是一名华裔美国人，他的领英资料显示他是一名居住在纽约的金融专业人士，2020年毕业于康奈尔大学——也就是所谓强奸案发生前四年。
One of those wrongly identified was a Chinese American whose LinkedIn profile identifies him as a New York-based finance professional who graduated from Cornell University in 2020 – four years before the alleged rape.
“你躲不掉。你的未来完了，”他收到的一条消息写道。“你将得到你应得的……也就是监狱！！你在那里会被轮奸。”另一条消息说有人对他施了“黑魔法”咒语。
“You can’t hide. Your future is over,” said one message he received via“You’ll get exactly what you deserve...which is prison!! You’ll be gang raped there.”Another said that a “black magic” spell had been cast upon him.
他在TikTok上的一段视频中表示——他的个人简介写着“与康奈尔7无关”——他已聘请律师，对一名在网上发布他电话号码和父母地址的女子提起诉讼。
In a video on TikTok – where his bio reads “Not part of Cornell7” – he said he had hired a lawyer to press charges against a woman who posted his phone number and his parents’ address online.
在一波仇恨信息的轰炸后，另一名被误认为是温斯顿·李的男子在 TikTok 上发布了个人呼吁，面向那些“网络侦探”。
After a deluge of hateful messages, another man misidentified as Winston Lee posted a personal appeal to TikTok detectives.
“我是印尼人，不是近期康奈尔大学案件中提到的温斯顿·李，”他说。“请在联系、@提及或指控某人之前，核实你要找的人的身份。”
“I am Indonesian and not the Winston Lee named in the recent Cornell University case,” he said. “Please verify the identity of the person you are looking for before contacting, tagging, or making accusations against someone.”
在遭遇类似的信息轰炸后，宾夕法尼亚大学的一名名叫温斯顿·李的美籍华裔学生在其领英个人资料上添加了免责声明：“我不在康奈尔上学。” 这些呼吁似乎并未减缓 Reddit 讨论版上所谓的针对这七名被指控者的“网络搜捕”，许多用户因此陷入了互联网的兔子洞。
After a similar flood of messages, a Chinese-American student named Winston Lee at the University of Pennsylvania added a disclaimer to his LinkedIn profile: “I do not go to Cornell.”Those appeals did not appear to slow what Reddit discussion boards described as an “online hunt” for the seven accused, drawing many users down internet rabbit holes.
由于关于真正被指控男子的核实细节寥寥无几，网民仍在激烈搜寻他的下落。
With few verified details about the man actually accused, internet users continued searching aggressively for his whereabouts.
一条 Reddit 帖子声称温斯顿·李正在韩国服兵役。X 平台上的一名用户称，她收到线报，指李被发现在康奈尔大学校园内。
One Reddit post claimed Winston Lee was now serving in the South Korean army. Another user on X said she had received tips suggesting Lee had been spotted on Cornell University’s campus.
名字与其他六名被指控者相似的人也抱怨遭遇愤怒的垃圾信息轰炸和威胁。
People with names like the other six accused also complained about rage spamming and threats.
“这些‘社会正义战士’简直是在给错误的人发信息并进行骚扰，”播客主持人布拉德·波伦博说。
“These social justice warriors are literally messaging and harassing the wrong” people, said podcast host Brad Polumbo.
“这些事情应该通过刑事程序或某种公正程序来诉讼解决，而不是通过社交媒体暴民或猎巫行动。”“被穷追猛打”一群前康奈尔大学学生，他们与这七名被指控者同属 Chi Phi 兄弟会，但已在涉嫌事件发生前毕业，也抱怨遭遇网络抹黑运动。
“These things should be litigated through the criminal process or through some sort of fair process, not through a social media mob or witch hunt.”‘Hounded’A group of former Cornell students, who belonged to the same Chi Phi fraternity as the seven accused but graduated before the alleged incident, also complained of online smear campaigns.
他们的律师亚当·福特在给大学的一封信中写道：“他们在社交媒体上被错误指控涉案，因此收到了死亡威胁和相关仇恨邮件。” 法新社获得了这封信。
“They are being wrongfully accused on social media of having involvement, are consequently receiving death threats and related hate mail,” their attorney Adam Ford wrote in a letter to the university that was obtained by AFP.
“大多数人的雇主和高等教育机构都对他们采取了不利行动，包括让他们休假。” 多年来，数字侦探们误认了备受关注的枪击案和其他犯罪的嫌疑人，使这些人遭受虐待。
“Most of them have had their employers and higher education institutions take adverse actions against them, including being placed on leave.”Digital sleuths have for years misidentified accused perpetrators of high-profile shootings and other crimes, exposing them to abuse.
研究阴谋论的迈克·罗斯柴尔德警告说，这种误认可能会进一步搅乱本已混乱的信息生态系统，并通过制造虚假线索阻碍实际调查。“被错误指控的人往往会遭到骚扰，”罗斯柴尔德告诉法新社。
Such misidentification can further roil an already chaotic information ecosystem and hinder the actual investigation by generating false leads, warned Mike Rothschild, a researcher who studies conspiracy theories. “The wrongfully accused are often hounded,” Rothschild told AFP.
“他们有时不得不躲藏起来，或收到死亡威胁，甚至亲身遭受暴力攻击。而指控他们的人犯错却不用承担任何后果。” 法新社
“They sometimes have to go into hiding, or get death threats, or are even violently attacked themselves. And there is no penalty for being wrong on the part of those accusing them.”AFP