Grand jury decides that seizure-inducing GIF counts as a deadly weapon
A few days ago, we reported that a Twitter user named John Rivello had been arrested by the FBI in connection to a targeted harassment campaign that was being directed at Newsweek writer and Vanity Fair editor Kurt Eichenwald. Rivello had allegedly sent a specific GIF to Eichenwald (who has epilepsy) that caused him to have a seizure, and so Rivello—who was mad at Eichenwald for criticizing Donald Trump—suddenly found himself facing what could be the first ever criminal charge for using an image on the internet to inflict physical harm on someone.