![]() ![]() ![]() Her painful experiences in the wake of the scandal, Starr Report, and the impeachment of Bill Clinton sparked a new calling in Lewinsky, who wishes to start a "cultural revolution" against the toxic online climate. Once the Drudge Report piece was published, the nascent online media relentlessly covered the Lewinsky scandal, arguably making it the first viral news story of the Internet age.Īs Lewinsky told it in her speech: Staring at the computer screen, I spent the day shouting: ‘Oh, my God!’ and ‘I can’t believe they put that in’ or ‘That’s so out of context.' And those were the only thoughts that interrupted a relentless mantra in my head: ‘I want to die.’ Let's take a trip back to 1998, where there was no Facebook and Silicon Valley was still affordable: The first outlet to break the Bill Clinton–Monica Lewinsky scandal was the Drudge Report, which was a little-known conservative gossip site at the time. Several months after publishing a tell-all essay in Vanity Fair, Monica Lewinsky spoke publicly for the first time in 13 years on Monday, delivering a speech at the Forbes Under 30 Summit in. Knowing all too well the psychological harm caused by online harassment, Lewinsky, who calls herself the "Patient Zero" of cyberbullying, is making it her mission to help victims of online bullying - and to end the damaging practice altogether. Today, the kind of online public shaming she went through has become constant - and can turn deadly. In 1998, she says, I was Patient Zero of losing a personal reputation on a global scale almost instantaneously. The former White House aid who endured years of media scrutiny - including a barrage of personal attacks from fledgling online bloggers - used the speech to introduce her newest venture: an anti-cyberbullying campaign. 'Public shaming as a blood sport has to stop,' says Monica Lewinsky. In 2021, Lewinsky worked closely with Ryan Murphy on his third chapter of American Horror Story. The book, 'Monicas Story,' is an authorized biography written by. Several months after publishing a tell-all essay in Vanity Fair, Monica Lewinsky spoke publicly for the first time in 13 years on Monday, delivering a speech at the Forbes Under 30 Summit in Philadelphia. The 49-year-old is an activist and writer who is often seen speaking out against cyberbullying. An earlier version of this article described incorrectly a book Beanie Feldstein read as she prepared to play Monica Lewinsky. ![]()
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