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Department of Justice As if the multiple bomb threats targeting its premiere — impelling a pack of bomb-sniffing dogs, boosted security, and a SWAT team — weren’t enough, “Leaving Neverland,” Dan Reed’s devastating documentary examining Wade Robson and James Safechuck’s child sexual-abuse allegations against pop legend Michael Jackson, activated an online army of rabid MJ loyalists who flood the social media mentions of anyone who so much as alludes to the film. “The evidence was that a lot of the Twitter accounts and emails where we were getting death threats and abuse had been created the day before and had a string of numbers and letters as their handle,” Reed told Variety. “It was clearly a bot operation. There were genuine fans who were emailing me and threatening me, but the bulk of them were fake.”
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