Tag: trolls

“Focus on what is before you, on what you can control and ignore the trolls!” Ivanka Trump wrote on Twitter. “Have a great week!”

British police forces arrested at least nine people a day for “offensive” comments on social media in 2016.

The government is spending hundreds of thousands of pounds of taxpayer’s cash on the first-ever national police unit dedicated to tackling Internet ‘trolls’.

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A Dutch court convicted 20 people Thursday of insulting or threatening a politician and television personality in a racially charged case that shocked the nation.

Contents: Russian Trolls; Popularity of Bashar al-Assad; Russian shootdown of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17; The future of the Mideast

Jonathan Weisman, deputy Washington editor of the New York Times, made international news Thursday when he received one, then many, antisemitic tweets from nameless trolls, who clearly enjoyed his shock and horror. The Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA), a news organization, began its report by

A “terrorist troll” arrested today by the FBI, with whom I once had fleeting but unproductive contact, posed as a feminist with a parody identity called Tanya Cohen with which he posted a column at feminist blog Feministing.com that outed game developer

In August, Breitbart forced Black Lives Matter campaigner Shaun King to confess that he has no idea who his father is, blowing apart his claim to represent oppressed black minorities and casting doubt on his eligibility for the Oprah scholarship that funded

This may be a case of “trolling” gone wild, an increasingly common and troubling phenomenon. It’s easy and cost-free for social media users to whip up campaigns of harassment, unleashing destructive passions that can spill over into far worse activities.