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Sam Cook

True story behind Netflix ‘revenge porn’ doc The Most Hated Man on the Internet

New Netflix documentary, The Most Hated Man on the Internet, tells the story of the self-dubbed 'King of Revenge Porn', Hunter Moore. In 2010, at 26 years old, Moore created the revenge porn website, Is Anyone Up? which allowed users to post sexual and explicit photos of people online without their consent. The new documentary, which is now available to watch, follows the mother of one of his victims, Charlotte Laws, as she makes it her mission to take him and the site down.

In an audio clip heard in the three-part documentary series, Moore says that he launched the site after "some dumb b***h who broke my heart". He would compare himself to serial killer, Charles Manson, and dubbed himself a "professional life-ruiner". Moore also paid a hacker to break into email accounts of victims and steal private photos to post.

In response to public bragging by Moore about the website, BBC News named him as "the Net's most hated man", a title which was adapted by Rolling Stone, calling him "the most hated man on the Internet". Facebook banned Moore from their site.

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