PropOrNot published a list of websites they called "bona-fide 'useful idiots of the Russian government. Given PropOrNot's broad criteria for classifying sources as propaganda, the "Post"s decision to run the front-page article was criticized by commentators such as Andrew Cockburn, Glenn Greenwald, Matt Taibbi, and Adrian Chen. In August 2018, the "Post"s article profiling the Jacksonville Landing shooter, a competitive gamer, was criticized by University of Oregon journalism professor Nicole Dahmen, who said, "The article reads like a glorified celebrity profile." The paper responded, saying: "As is true in all cases, reporting on the alleged killer is only one aspect of our coverage. In this instance, the story helps readers better understand the esports community affected and the accused killer's history within that community. These are not easy decisions to make and for each individual story, we must consider what is newsworthy." In June 2020, the "Post" was criticized for publishing a 3,000 word article about a person wearing blackface in a private party two years earlier despite the person not being of public notability, leading to her being fired. In June 2018, over 400 employees of "The Washington Post" signed an open letter to the owner Jeff Bezos demanding "fair wages; fair benefits for retirement, family leave and health care; and a fair amount of job security." The open letter was accompanied by video testimonials from employees, who alleged "shocking pay practices" despite record growth in subscriptions at the newspaper, with salaries only rising an average of $10 per week, less than half the rate of inflation. The petition followed on a year of unsuccessful negotiations between "The Washington Post" Guild and upper management over pay and benefit increases. In 2019, Covington Catholic High School student Nick Sandmann filed a defamation lawsuit against the "Post", alleging that it libeled him in seven articles regarding the January 2019 Lincoln Memorial confrontation between Covington students and the Indigenous Peoples March. On October 2019, a federal judge dismissed the case, ruling that 30 of the 33 statements in the "Post" that Sandmann alleged were libelous were not, but allowed Sandmann to file an amended complaint. Several "Washington Post" op-eds and columns have prompted criticism, including a number of comments on race by columnist Richard Cohen over the years, and a controversial 2014 column on campus sexual assault by George Will. The "Post"'s decision to run an op-ed by Mohammed Ali al-Houthi, a leader in Yemen's Houthi movement, was criticized by some activists on the basis that it provided a platform to an "anti-Western and antisemitic group supported by Iran."