Twitter Rallied to Find a Missing Woman — And Then Turned On Her

How #we’relookingforyoukaren transformed into #lyingkaren.

Meaghan Beatley
OneZero
Published in
8 min readFeb 10, 2020

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ItIt was nearly 10 a.m. on December 4 when Laura Karen Espindola realized it had all gone wrong. “Holy shit. Look what’s happened,” her friend said before holding out his phone. Espindola’s face was all over his Facebook. Each post featured the selfie she’d…

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