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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and his wife Casey DeSantis look on during a campaign stop with "DeSantis 2024" signs behind them

Controversial DeSantis-Linked Charity’s Zoom Meeting Hijacked by Porn and Nazis

The Hope Florida Foundation continues to plague the governor and his wife.

Politics AJ Dellinger Apr 19

TikTok Teens and K-Pop Fans Just Trolled Trump in the Best Way Possible

A few days ago, President Donald Trump boasted on Twitter that almost a million people had requested tickets for his campaign rally, the first one he’s held in months due to the coronavirus pandemic, in Tulsa, Oklahoma. However, the reality was that only a few thousand showed up, leaving the president speaking to a largely…

Tech News Jody Serrano Jun 21

Zoom Makes Common-Sense Security Measures Default After Wave of Troll Attacks

Beginning Sunday, Zoom will begin requiring passwords and enabling virtual waiting rooms by default in an attempt to tamp down on the flood of troll attacks that’s accompanied its ballooning userbase in the wake of the covid-19 pandemic. The multibillion-dollar video messaging platform’s userbase has jumped from 10 million people at the end of last…

Privacy & Security Alyse Stanley Apr 4

Twitter Says It Will Crack Down on Posts Encouraging Others to Harm Themselves

Twitter, the social media website best known for ignoring its abuse problem until it metastasized into a full-blown presidency, has as of late been trying to change its image. It’s stripped some far-right and white supremacist users of their verified badges and banned others, as well as rolled out what it says is harsher enforcement…

Tech News Tom McKay Feb 12

James Gunn Trolling a Fake Kevin Feige Is My Favorite Thing Today

Figuring out the secrets behind the latest superhero movies is one of the internet’s favorite past times. This week though, one Guardians of the Galaxy fan took things to a whole new level and paid the price by taking an epic troll. Guardians of the Galaxy director James Gunn just posted a series of screencaps…

Movies Germain Lussier Jun 15

40,000 Definitely Real People Have Applied for Jobs on Donald Trump’s Broken Website

Speaking to Fox News on Thursday, RNC Chief Strategist Sean Spicer boasted that “almost 50,000″ people have submitted resumes to join the Donald Trump administration through his website. Whether all of those people are real, however, is far from certain. In order to fill some 4,000 presidential appointee positions, the President-elect’s transition team set up…

Tech News Hudson Hongo Nov 17

4Chan Creator Says He Works at Google Now and We Can’t Figure Out If He’s Trolling

Is Christopher Poole, the creator of 4Chan who’s also known as “moot,” going to work for Google? If we’re to believe the latest blog post (and tweet) from the notorious community leader, that’s exactly what’s happening. In a blog titled “My next chapter,” Poole is announcing that he’s joining Google—without much else detail. “When meeting…

Tech News Michael Nunez Mar 7

Taser Employees Appear to Troll Anti-Taser Documentary With Fake Reviews

Killing Them Safely is a documentary taking issue with the ‘less than lethal’ part of Taser’s stun guns. It’s been critically acclaimed by the New York Times and Hollywood Reporter, but Taser’s employees have not-so-anonymously been taking to the internet to pan the movie. The film’s directors have published a series of tweets alleging to…

Tech News Chris Mills Dec 10

Anonymous Is Really Screwing Up Its Stupid War on ISIS

This should not come as a surprise, but Anonymous is probably not going to rid the world of terror with its myriad “ops.” In fact, the latest reports indicate that the leaderless pack of hacktivists is not only incapable of disrupting ISIS, it seems like Anonymous is totally fucking this one up. It’s been a…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes Nov 23

What It’s Like to Work For Putin’s Internet Troll Army

The Guardian has a doozy of a report on Russia’s secret troll army: hundreds of bloggers and commentators paid to flood the internet with pro-Kremlin posts. Two former employees gave the paper a rare glimpse inside the troll army’s headquarters. The bloggers and commentators work in 12-hour shifts inside a St. Petersburg office building, where…

Tech News Sarah Zhang Apr 2

The Birth of the Internet Troll

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. And while the term “troll” has become wildly muddied,…

Tech News Ashley Feinberg Oct 30

Someone At Congress Got Banned From Wikipedia for Trolling

Trolling is fun, until you get caught. And that’s exactly what just happened to someone in Washington, who got a Congressional IP address banned for trolling Wikipedia. It all started when the Twitter account @CongressEdits started tracking (and tweeting) the anonymous edits Congressional IPs were making to Wikipedia. It seems that someone (a staffer no…

Tech News Eric Limer Jul 24

It’s Ridiculously Easy to Troll Google Maps With Fake Listings

Trust the listings you find on Google Maps? You shouldn’t, because it’s dumb easy to fake them. That’s what Google Maps exploiter Bryan Seely demonstrated for me this morning. And while trolling politicians with dick jokes is never not funny, there’s also a whole sub-community of scammers turning Google Map’s little bugs into cold, hard…

Tech News Eric Limer Feb 26

Why Hollywood Hacking Is So Hilariously Horrible

The hacking scenes in House of Cards are wildly unrealistic. They’re everything from infuriating to hilarious, but they are definitely not surprising. It turns out, though, that this long tradition of portraying hacking horribly, horribly wrong in TV and film is often intentional. https://gizmodo.com/the-house-of-cards-hacker-is-the-best-worst-thing-about-1524460159 In fact, in a lot of ways it’s necessary. Real hacking…

Movies Eric Limer Feb 21

Why do trolls annoy you online? Because they’re sadists.

Though not just sadists — researchers say online trolls also score above average in narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy. In a new study published in Personality and Individual Differences, researchers from the University of Manitoba looked at the correlation between internet trolling and the four traits that are part of the (alarming sounding) “Dark Tetrad.” The…

io9 Ria Misra Feb 14

Hilariously crazy guy trolls rich guys in expensive sports cars

“You’re driving top down! God’s a pimp! You’re an angel! I pray that I may die for you!” Enjoy Vine user Conner O’Malley and his mad trolling of rich guys in expensive sports cars, driving around NYC and other cities. https://autoweekusa.kinja.com/meet-conner-omalley-vines-car-troll-1331994860

Sploid Jesus Diaz Sep 20

The Best Way to Troll Someone Who Just Got Lasik

Here’s a screenshot from a Reddit user giving a course in Advanced Trolling Theory. The text isn’t actually text, just an image of blurry words dropped right into the post. Here’s some context on the message board board: it’s a private message board and is therefore not indexed in google http://digitalgangster.com and it’s something the…

Tech News Kyle Wagner Aug 2

Texting People Who Leave Their Numbers Public Is Awful and Great

Trolls are the worst but funny trolls are shake-your-head enjoyable. You can’t help but appreciate their mastery of that craft. Textastrophe is the perfect example of that. He texts people who leave their numbers in public and weaves an epic conversation that makes clowns, Moonbounce renters, movers and other poor innocent bystanders regret ever putting…

Tech News Casey Chan May 8

Just Trolling Here, Just Trolling

Nothing like bringing your iMac to the Microsoft Store to troll everyone. First, Microsoft employees, trying to troubleshot whatever the hell is wrong with it. Then Apple fanboys, offended by the idea of their beloved OS X replaced by Windows 8. [Jai Definichon]

Tech News Jesus Diaz Jan 11

PBS Explains What Trolling Is

If you’ve traveled around the circuit track of the Internet a couple of times, you’ve heard about trolls trolling. What does that mean? For the Internet unfamiliar, it’s basically a bunch of not so lovely online folks who post stuff to get people angry. The latest video from PBS Off Book explains trolling, cyber bulling…

Tech News Casey Chan Dec 14

trolling

Controversial DeSantis-Linked Charity’s Zoom Meeting Hijacked by Porn and Nazis

TikTok Teens and K-Pop Fans Just Trolled Trump in the Best Way Possible

Zoom Makes Common-Sense Security Measures Default After Wave of Troll Attacks

Twitter Says It Will Crack Down on Posts Encouraging Others to Harm Themselves

James Gunn Trolling a Fake Kevin Feige Is My Favorite Thing Today

40,000 Definitely Real People Have Applied for Jobs on Donald Trump’s Broken Website

4Chan Creator Says He Works at Google Now and We Can’t Figure Out If He’s Trolling

Taser Employees Appear to Troll Anti-Taser Documentary With Fake Reviews

Anonymous Is Really Screwing Up Its Stupid War on ISIS

What It’s Like to Work For Putin’s Internet Troll Army

The Birth of the Internet Troll

Someone At Congress Got Banned From Wikipedia for Trolling

It’s Ridiculously Easy to Troll Google Maps With Fake Listings

Why Hollywood Hacking Is So Hilariously Horrible

Why do trolls annoy you online? Because they’re sadists.

Hilariously crazy guy trolls rich guys in expensive sports cars

The Best Way to Troll Someone Who Just Got Lasik

Texting People Who Leave Their Numbers Public Is Awful and Great

Just Trolling Here, Just Trolling

PBS Explains What Trolling Is

Someone Finally Took a Good iPhone Photo of the Moon. Good Luck Copying Their Trick

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