Kiwi Farms

Kiwi Farms is an online forum based in the United States of America that hosts user‑generated discussions. The platform has become known for facilitating harassment campaigns, doxxing, and swatting incidents against individuals, particularly those from marginalized communities. Its content often centers on targeting specific people, with threads that compile personal information and encourage coordinated abuse. These activities have drawn criticism from activists and advocacy groups who argue that the forum enables real‑world harm. The site’s reputation is therefore defined by its specialization in controversial and harmful user‑generated content rather than any commercial product or service.

In August 2022 Kiwi Farms suffered a significant service disruption when a distributed denial‑of‑service attack combined with network intrusions overwhelmed its infrastructure, prompting its upstream ISPs to block routing to the servers and effectively forcing the site offline. The outage followed public pressure on Cloudflare to withdraw the security services it provided to the forum, with activists highlighting the platform’s role in enabling harassment and doxxing. The forum’s notoriety includes involvement in a high-profile swatting incident that targeted a well-known individual. Although affiliates of the hacktivist collective Anonymous commented on the incident, no group claimed responsibility for the attacks, and the hosting provider’s actions were described as an effort to mitigate collateral damage from the sustained cyber assault. This episode underscored the vulnerability of the forum to external pressure and the broader debate over the responsibilities of service providers hosting contentious online communities.