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Trolls
January 22, 2021
Alex Shephard
Don’t Fire People for Dumb Tweets
The Niskanen Center bowed to fake outrage from bad-faith right-wing trolls when it fired Will Wilkinson.
September 18, 2019
Jasper Craven
Russian Trolls Love Targeting U.S. Veterans
Building on congressional intelligence, a new report offers a broad view on the dirty tricks trolls use to hook American servicemembers.
October 4, 2016
Brooke Seipel
Even the conspiracy theorists are turning on Julian Assange.
June 20, 2016
Malcolm Harris
Who Are the Trolls?
A folklore expert tries to understand the people who ruin the internet.
April 23, 2014
Emmett Rensin
This Infamous Hacker Went to Prison for Trolling AT&T. Now He Wants to Troll Wall Street.
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