No one wants to think of themselves as an internet troll. Antagonising people online by "deliberately posting inflammatory, irrelevant, or offensive comments or other disruptive content" (according to ...

Clemson University researchers are on the hunt for internet trolls, and they want to arm you with weapons to strike them down, or at least, spot their deceitful tactics."Troll" is the slang term for ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Two Clemson University professors want to fight online misinformation by giving everyone a pop ...

We’d all like to think we can spot fake content on social media. But some of the methods used to create it are sophisticated, making it easy for even informed users to be fooled. The good news is that ...

The federal indictments special counsel Robert Mueller handed down a few days ago confirmed that Russian agents did, indeed, use social media to interfere with the 2016 presidential election â ...

Two Clemson University professors have a question for voters surfing social media during these turbulent weeks before Election Day: Is that tweet or post you’re reading from a real person . . . or a ...

Comment sections on the internet can be a cesspool of human misery and rarely lead to fruitful conversations. Many news sites have given up on regulating comment sections and simply gotten rid of them ...