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Fighting online trolls with bots

  • Written by Saiph Savage, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, West Virginia University
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The wonder of internet connectivity can turn into a horror show if the people who use online platforms decide that instead of connecting and communicating, they want to mock, insult, abuse, harass and even threaten each other. In online communities since at least the early 1990s, this has been called “trolling...

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