In this month's issue of Personality and Individual Differences, a study was published that confirms what we all suspected: Internet trolls are horrible people. Let's start by getting our definitions ...

In the age of the Internet troll, there's an unfortunately predictable cycle for what happens to women who talk about feminist issues online: They get barraged with rape threats and harassment. For ...

BERLIN — They don't only live in the mountains and caves of Scandinavian folklore, or in modern-day animated cartoons. Trolls now make mischief on online forums and social media platforms by provoking ...

Ofcom has hired security protection for staff after they were targeted by internet trolls during an online safety crackdown.

The line between journalism and Internet trolling can get blurry at times. The latest example comes in the wake of Rolling Stone magazine’s flawed UVA rape story. The magazine admitted last week that ...

It’s so new that it hasn’t fully taken shape: Even its architects concede it hasn’t fleshed out an actual strategy yet, and accordingly can’t point to any ...