“When I visited with Mr. Cosby on Thursday, he was overviewing his Father’s Day message that he was excited to give to a support group in the institution called ‘Man Up,’” Mr. Wyatt said. “Mr. Cosby spoke to these men who have been incarcerated for many years, but are up for parole soon,” about removing the “dis” from “disadvantage” and focusing on the advantage.

“That advantage is to be better fathers," Mr. Wyatt said, “to be productive citizens and to remember Never Again, which means, Never Again should you enter this gates to this plantation, because this is the new form of slavery.”

“Unfortunately," Mr. Wyatt continued, “media focused ‘only’ on a handful of negative comments, but refused to publish the thousands of positive comments .”

One woman who testified against Mr. Cosby at his trial in April 2018, Janice Baker-Kinney, said she checked Mr. Cosby’s Twitter account on Monday morning when she saw his name was trending online. She found the account had blocked her — something she said she wears as a “badge of honor.”