Trolling

Is there any defence against the tidal wave of online disinformation?

From our UK edition

Whether you’re left, right or just somewhere vaguely in between, wherever you’re coming from you may well have a sense that things are somehow not quite right, that the country is headed in the wrong direction, that our various problems and crises seem to be multiplying. You may well have concluded that this is because our institutions have been taken over by an out-of-touch elite who run the government, the judiciary, the media and goodness knows what else, and that the only way to discover the real truth is to do your own research, which involves scrolling through the internet because you no longer trust the ‘mainstream media’.

How to beat Twitter cellar-dwellers at their own game

For an ordinary girl from Florida whose Twitter presence is largely focused on her rescue pets (shout out to Jolene, Dixie Belle and Mean Cat) and her love of pop culture, I get trolled a lot. Perhaps people don’t enjoy my hot takes on J.Lo’s Oscar snub as much as I’d hoped. Or maybe the internet has lost its appetite for cute pictures of dogs — a sign of the apocalypse if ever there was one. But it’s probably because this Florida Man is my older brother. For the record, I wouldn’t have it any other way. Though, like most siblings, we don’t agree on everything, I love him and am deeply proud of him.

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