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Our experiments taught us why people troll

  • Written by Justin Cheng, Ph.D Student in Computer Science, Stanford University
imageTrolling can spread from person to person.Cropped from Ayana T. Miller/flickr, CC BY-ND

“Fail at life. Go bomb yourself.”

Comments like this one, found on a CNN article about how women perceive themselves, are prevalent today across the internet, whether it’s Facebook, Reddit or a news website. Such behavior can range from...

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