Online abusers have nothing to teach the toxic trolls who now debase parliament | Catherine Bennett…
Embedded, for a while, among thousands of comments responding to the Guardian’s report on the People’s Vote march in London last weekend, was one…
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Iran’s new Facebook trolls are using Russia’s Playbook | Social Media
On Friday, Facebook shut down another network of 82 accounts, pages, and groups that have been posing as US and UK citizens since 2016. The network,…
Hackers, trolls and the fight over your vote in the 2018 midterm elections | Cyber Security
It’s not as intense as in 2016, as far as we know. But there are plenty of indications that the hacking and social media manipulation techniques used…
Online trolls should be given digital ‘ASBOs’ for abusing MPs, report says | Social Media
Online trolls who abuse politicians should be given digital ASBOs temporarily banning them from using social media, the government has been told. A…
After Russian trolls tarnished The Last Jedi, is it safe to like Star Wars again? | Social Media
In Star Wars, the bad guys will zap your entire planet from the cosmos if they disagree with your political position. In real life, it turns out that…
Microsoft takes another step to fight patent trolls by joining the LOT Network | Industry
Last year, Microsoft created the Azure IP Advantage program, which was designed to defend and indemnify developers against claims of intellectual…
Ryan Reynolds hilariously trolls wife Blake Lively over a racy photo with a naked male boxer |…
caption Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds know how to poke fun at one another. source Michael Loccisano/Getty Images It’s not a Hollywood secret…
Propaganda-spewing Russian trolls act differently online from regular people | Computing
One group, a Russian government-sponsored troll farm called the Internet Research Agency, was the subject of a federal indictment issued in…
Russian Twitter trolls played both sides of vaccine debate, study says | Cyber Security
Russian trolls used Twitter to sow discord in the vaccination debate, according to a study. SOPA Images Russian trolls on Twitter didn’t pick a…
Will Twitter Succeed in Defeating Trolls? The Stakes for Marketers | Marketing
“I’m addicted to you, don’t you know that you’re toxic?”
I can guarantee this will be the first and last time I ever open a blog post with lyrics…