We Might Be Looking at the Troll Problem Wrong

The act of trolling isn’t necessarily causing the damage, it’s the misogyny and death threats that should be of real concern.

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Trolling is a art,” so the saying goes. If one ventures into most comment sections or discussion forums, you’re bound to run into a few so-called artists. New York Times columnist Farhad Manjoo is of the opinion that trolls will never go away, but that may not be the case.

Manjoo writes:

The Internet may be losing the war against trolls. At the very least, it isn’t winning. And unless social networks, media sites and governments come up with some innovative way of defeating online troublemakers, the digital world will never be free of their collective sway.

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