The targets of Kiwi Farms threads are often subject to organized group
trolling, harassment, and stalking, including real-life harassment by users.
[2][4] The site targets transgender people,
[24][25][26][27] people with disabilities,
[26][28] those its users believe to be non-
neurotypical,
[26][28][27] and members of the far-right.
[29][30] Tactics include publishing their victims' personal information ("
doxxing"), trying to get them fired from their jobs, reporting crimes at their addresses in an attempt to have police dispatched to their homes ("
swatting"), and harassing their family members and friends. Some of Kiwi Farms' harassment campaigns have continued for months or years, and some aim to drive the targets to suicide.
[3][31] Both the site's owner Moon and the userbase of Kiwi Farms have been described as
antisemitic, with Kiwi Farms users targeting a transgender Jewish convert with antisemitic abuse.
[32][33]
Clara Sorrenti, a
transgender activist and
Twitch streamer under the name "Keffals", was doxxed on Kiwi Farms in a thread dedicated to discussing her. Users on the site posted personal information about her (e.g. addresses, phone numbers) as well as that of her friends and family. Users also
leaked sexually explicit photos of her and made
death threats.
[34][35] She was later
swatted, arrested, and detained for over ten hours in August 2022 when someone
stole her identity and sent fake emails to local politicians threatening mass violence. She was later cleared of any wrongdoing, and police acknowledged the incident as a swatting attempt. Users also posted the address of an unrelated man who lives in the same city and shares her last name, and police were also sent to his residence. After the swatting incident, Sorrenti said she moved out of her home and into a hotel for her safety.
[36][37] After she posted a photograph of her cat on the hotel bed, Kiwi Farms users identified the hotel from the bedsheets in the photograph, and sent multiple pizza orders to the hotel under her
deadname. "Obviously, the pizza itself isn't the problem. It's the threat they send by telling me they know where I live and are willing to act on it in the real world," she said in a video after the incident.
[36][37][38] Sorrenti later fled the country after her location was identified again, reportedly by someone who hacked her
Uber account.
[39] The incidents are being investigated as criminal harassment, and Sorrenti stated she intended to pursue legal action.
[37][40][41] Sorrenti also promoted a campaign to pressure Cloudflare into terminating its services to the website.
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