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They didn't wear hoods as they chanted "Jews will not replace us." They weren't hiding their faces as they waved Confederate flags, racist signs and swastikas. They looked straight at a sea of cameras as they made the Nazi salute.

 the white supremacist march and rally this past weekend wasn't a KKK rally: "It was a pride march."

The bare-faced shamelessness was the point. But it was also an opening.

On the Internet, some people are crowd-sourcing efforts to identify and shame the people participating in the rally. Most prominently, on Twitter, the account called "Yes, You're Racist" has been soliciting help and posting IDs. "I'll make them famous," the account pledged.

https://twitter.com/YesYoureRacist/status/896411734617075712

So far, at least one protester is no longer employed after being publicly named and shamed.

Cole White, who used to work at a hot dog restaurant in Berkeley, Calif., 

 on Saturday after his employer confronted him about his participation in the event, according to the Berkeleyside news site.

https://twitter.com/YesYoureRacist/status/896713553666871296

@YesYoureRacist is not a new Twitter account. Since 2012, the account has been calling out "casual racism on Twitter," according to the user's 

post screenshots of deleted racist tweets,

 and retweet everyday users who would say 

But after the rally in Charlottesville, Yes You're Racist pivoted from highlighting online remarks to identifying real-world marchers.

Social media making it easy to form online lynch mobs

Many of the people it named had publicly declared their plans to go to Charlottesville. The account identified one man as 

 who wrote on the white supremacist site Daily Stormer last month, "See you in Charlottesville!"

https://twitter.com/YesYoureRacist/status/896571204018024448?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.npr.org%2F2017%2F08%2F14%2F543418271%2Fon-the-internet-everyone-knows-you-re-a-racist-twitter-account-ids-marchers

"Illegal Aryan," real name Mark Daniel Reardon, was identified by an antifascist group 

 and confirmed on Daily Stormer that he lost his job as a result.

Another identified marcher, who has repeatedly 

 and says he is a member of the Proud Boys, said on Twitter he was at Charlottesville. After he was identified, he said 

Of course, there's a long and not entirely noble tradition of online humiliation for perceived moral trespasses.

Jon Ronson, who literally wrote the book on the phenomenon (it's called So You've Been Publicly Shamed), 

 to give his take on the public identification of the white supremacists, white nationalists and neo-Nazis marching in Charlottesville.

"They were undisguised in a massively contentious rally surrounded by the media," he said, noting also that there's "a big difference" between making a thoughtless or offensive comment online and marching in the name of white power.

That said, Twitter is "a terrible information swapping service," he said, and some innocent people would inevitably get caught up in the process.

Indeed, the "Yes You're Racist" account has made, and acknowledged, some mistakes.

 it examined was from a previous Trump rally, not the Charlottesville march or rally. (That image featured a man wearing a Nazi armband. He 

 he wore it as a "social experiment" to prove that "not all Trump supporters are Nazis. I went to the Trump rally as a Nazi and they kicked me out and disavowed me ... I dressed up as a Nazi to prove a point, not to spread a message of hate.")

https://twitter.com/YesYoureRacist/status/896478927220355076

Another photo was misidentified as the white supremacist Billy Roper. Roper, who has called for 

 did not actually attend the Charlottesville event. Roper, who is vehemently anti-Semitic, 

 that one of the speakers at the event works with a Jewish fundraiser.

 that he actively contributed to the confusion over the identity of the "Arkansas Engineering" marcher:

As Roper muddied the waters, others on the internet misidentified the man in the photo as a University of Arkansas professor, which 

photographed screaming at the torchlit march

 told a local news station that it was definitely him — but he insisted he's "not the angry racist" people see in the photo.

"As a white nationalist, I care for all people," said Peter Cvjetanovic, who is studying history and political science at the University of Nevada, Reno.

"I did not expect the photo to be shared as much as it was," he told KTVN.

A "Yes, You're Racist" tweet about Peter Cvjetanovic was retweeted more than 32,000 times.

https://twitter.com/YesYoureRacist/status/896502810971426818

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