The fake accounts had handles like @NayNayCantStop, @LatrineWatts, and @CisHate, and bios like “Queer + black + angry.” By Rachelle Hampton.

Trolling by states and parties is changing the political landscape of entire nations, according to journalists and politicians. By Michael Riley, Lauren Etter, Bibhudatta Pradham.

ABC, AP and others ran with false information on shooter’s ties to extremist groups. By Shawn Musgrave.

The Times’ favorite shitposter says he wasn’t radicalized on the internet. But that’s where his movement has been revived. By Charlie Warzel.

How did Andrew Anglin go from being an antiracist vegan to the alt-right’s most vicious troll and propagandist—and how might he be stopped? By Luke O’Brien.

The incels, or involuntary celibates, violated the internet forum’s new policy against advocating physical harm, including rape. By Christine Hauser.

From Ben Shapiro to Stefan Molyneux, the politically confused heirs to New Atheism are merging with the YouTube right—and forming a new kind of idiot. By Alex Nichols.

The world is full of assholes. Wherever you live, whatever you do, odds are you’re surrounded by assholes. The question is, what to do about it?

Ignoring or downplaying colonial atrocities is the moral equivalent of Holocaust denial. By Nathan J. Robinson.

What is the alt-right? Where did it come from? And how has this strange online subculture blossomed into a mainstream political movement with real-world power? By Sean Illing with Angela Nagle.

They’re heroes in the industry, idolized by an army of millennial gamers. But their true legacy is hiding in plain sight. By John Adkins.

[Much of] Current internet culture is rooted in the SomethingAwful.com forums. These are the people who made it what it was. By Taylor Wofford.

“Showing that they don’t care about me, or caring that I should know they don’t care about me, still denotes dependence... They show me respect precisely by showing me that they don’t respect me.” By Maria Popova.

Her arguments are meaningless and never end (so she fits right in on Twitter.)

The first time you heard the word “troll,” it was likely in the context of folklore or fairytale—a gruesome, mythical creature hiding under a bridge or in a cave to terrorize passing people or goats. But now you probably hear the word “troll” all the time. We use “trolling” to describe everything from innocent pranks to mean tweets to vicious harassment. Putting up with trolls has become the toll we all pay for a life lived online.

Internet trolls have derailed a man's challenge to spend four days locked in a room listening to nothing but Rick Astley's hit Never Gonna Give You Up. In a Facebook video message around eight hours into his charity bid, Jack White, 23, said he had been inundated with abuse on his live Youtube page. The trolls also attacked his seven-year-old nephew who has Type 1 diabetes and for whom Mr White is fundraising. Mr White's brother James has taken over the challenge instead.

Trolls are shitting all over our internet. You can hardly search for something as innocuous as "dog" on Google without coming across inflammatory attacks on every possible dog-related opinion under the sun. All horrible things have to crawl before they can walk/crush spirits, though. Even trolls.

This month is the 10-year anniversary of my first online threat. I thought it was a one-off, then. Just one angry guy. And it wasn’t really THAT bad. But looking back, it was the canary in the coal mine… the first hint that if I kept on this path, it would not end well. And what was that path? We’ll get to that in a minute.

If you’ve ever managed an online community, a blog, or a brand’s Facebook page, you have encountered the dreaded “troll.” These community members can be provocative and rude, and are known for creating posts for the sole purpose of agitating their fellow members. Trolls add inflammatory comments not because they hope to inform or convince others, but because they know they’ll spark an avalanche of negativity.

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