Trolls Target Female Scientist


Katie Boumann’s rise to scientific stardom came with a downside: online trolls who claimed her work was really done by a man, CNN reports. The 29-year-old MIT graduate helped create the algorithms and imaging process that allowed scientists to produce the first-ever image of a black hole on Wednesday. Cue the Reddit, Twitter, and YouTube users who diminished her work or said Andrew Chael, a white male scientist on the project, was the real mastermind. One YouTube video was called “Woman Does 6% of the Work but Gets 100% of the Credit: Black Hole Photo,” per NBC News, while Twitter and Reddit posts claimed Chael created “850,000 of the 900,000 lines of code that were written in the historic black-hole image algorithm!”

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