Social media platforms should hide the viewing metrics on malicious content posted by trolls as part of a more proactive approach to curbing their behavior, recommends new University of Sussex ...

For Australian breaker Rachael "Raygun" Gunn, the 2024 Paris Olympics were marred by an outpouring of online trolling. Gunn's performance was met with a savage backlash on social media. Viral videos ...

Whitney Phillips hunts trolls. For the past four years she's watched them on forums and Facebook, studied patterns in their behavior, chatted online with a few, and even met a small handful. Subscribe ...

Banner image: A crowd tunes in for a televised debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump in 2016. (Credit: LBJ Library) In the lead up to the 2016 presidential election, thousands of Twitter ...

It used to be that the troll population consisted primarily of sweaty nerds. But now, everyone's trolling, including crappy steak brands and ... actual candidates for higher office. Used correctly, ...