THE goal of keeping Sadie away from real-life spaces is for everyone’s safety. In addition to death threats, doxxes and outings, plus snitching to Andy Ngo, Sadie has also attempted to catfish abuse survivors who are completely unconnected to her targets. Her goal is to build trust, learn their trauma and experiences as well as pry for personal info. Then as leverage, Sadie unleashes rage, abuse, fear and harassment to attempt to control the survivors, she continues by threatening to publish their personal information, which she does if she has it. On three identified occasions, Sadie has posed as a supporter to a survivor who had just named their abuser, only to turn on them with blackmail, threats, and doxxing. Sadie’s relentless and disturbing behavior has prevented survivors, , many of them sex workers, from outting their abusers, and driven them out of broader left. When Sadie has been unable to gain information or manipulate the vulnerable person, she switches to verbally abusing and threatening to harm them and herself.
Isolating Sadie & her allies + enforcing a stronger security culture
FIRST: Stay physically and digitally away from Sadie Farrell.
Make sure people don’t forget what she looks like and what she acts like online so that if she pops up, folks can disengage and block or report. Sadie will go where she feels the most attention, the biggest audience. She wants to make her targets feel scared, exposed, and powerless.
Do not attempt to deescalate Sadie through direct contact, she will screenshot any message you send and use it against you later, as she has in the past.
SECOND: Sadie has had ongoing contacts and relationships within the NYC scene.
These contacts have shared personally identifying information about other radicals with her. Sadie has actively threatened, doxxed, Ngo-snitched, terrorized, copjacketed, and dry snitched comrades. If you see anyone who is defending, engaging with, or supporting Sadie, then recognize that person is also not safe. Anything you tell to them may return back to Sadie, she weaponizes any crumb of information she gobbles up. Take necessary precautions for your safety and the safety of your community.
Sadie’s skills at effective manipulation advance her goals of obtaining knowledge. For Sadie to be successful, people have to be willing to share sensitive information about themselves or others. Let’s not do that. No one benefits when private information and identities aren’t kept safe, especially when there’s demons prowling.
THIRD: Broader Movement Security Tips
For those newer to the movement or newer to thinking about stronger security and threat modeling after all this, we recommend starting with developing an understanding of what is not-ok behavior by reading and discussing Why Misogynists Make Great FBI Informants: How Gender Violence on the Left Enables State Violence in Radical Movements essay, orginally posted in 2010.
Then learning about security culture is and does, posted on Crimethinc in 2004 and then learning and deploying the tools and practices to keep ourselves, our community, and our comrades safer. Send tips to SadieSnitched@proton.me
Remember, we protect us.