Threats proffered on social media have been linked with real-world violence.

[professor rat]

Threats can turn targets’ lives upside down, forcing them to quit their job, hide their identity, and stop going out in public.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/04/threats-election-workers-2020-counterman-v-colorado/673633/

Reposts from variegated terrain not spectacular high peaks of terror nor teeming flood-plain of pacifism