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After the release of ''Ghostbusters'' in July 2016, Jones became the subject of racist and misogynistic attacks over [[Twitter]]. The social media platform responded by taking action against several users, resulting in the permanent [[Twitter suspensions|banning]] of user and [[Breitbart News|Breitbart]] editor [[Milo Yiannopoulos]], who had described Jones as "barely literate".<ref>{{cite news|last=Roy|first=Jessica|title=Twitter bans Breitbart's Milo Yiannopoulos for harassment|url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-et-mn-twitter-milo-yiannopoulos-20160719-snap-story.html|access-date=July 20, 2016|work=[[Los Angeles Times]]|date=July 19, 2016}}</ref>
After continuing to receive racist comments, Jones temporarily left Twitter on July 18, 2016.<ref>{{cite news|last=Fisher|first=Lucina|title='Ghostbusters' Star Leslie Jones Quits Twitter After Online Harassment|url=https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/ghostbusters-star-leslie-jones-quits-twitter-online-harassment/story?id=40698459|access-date=July 20, 2016|publisher=[[ABC News (United States)|ABC News]]|date=July 20, 2016}}</ref> She appeared later in the week on ''[[Late Night with Seth Meyers]]'', where she discussed the ordeal and her meeting with Twitter CEO [[Jack Dorsey]]. In response to Yiannopoulos' claim that he was targeted for being a "gay conservative", she
A month later, Jones was again subjected to online harassment. Her personal website was hacked, with its contents being replaced with photos of her passport and driver's license.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/leslie-jones-website-hacked-article-1.2764043|title=Leslie Jones' website hacked, with nude photos and personal information exposed|first=Peter|last=Sblendorio|website=nydailynews.com|date=August 25, 2016 }}</ref> The site was also changed to display alleged nude pictures of her, as well as a video tribute to [[Harambe]], the Cincinnati Zoo gorilla killed in May 2016 (a reference to the racially charged gorilla remarks hurled at Jones in the earlier attack). Her team took the website down soon after it was hacked.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-hacking-of-leslie-jones-exposes-misogynoir-at-its-worst|title=The Hacking of Leslie Jones Exposes Misogynoir at Its Worst|first=Amy|last=Zimmerman|website=[[The Daily Beast]]|date=August 25, 2016}}</ref>
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