#maliciouscommunications

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From Russian bots to American trolls: Inside the troubled Bernie Sanders campaign

'He got up on stage and used two black women as shields for him. That was a smack in the face'

24 February 2020

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Coronavirus: Twitter bans incitement to attack 5G towers

The social network will delete posts inciting people to damage telecoms infrastructure.

24 April 2020

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When I told my university I was harassed online, I was asked what a hashtag was | Natasha Jokic

Social media has existed for years, but universities are only just realising they must protect students from online abuse

This is exactly why women should be a protected category under hate crime and hate speech laws: it might encourage universities to take proper action and formulate effective procedures for dealing with cases like these. Online abuse happens far more regularly than offline abuse; it’s time universities recognise this and start preparing for when it happens.

21 April 2020

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Boy charged with right-wing terrorism offences

The 16-year-old faces 11 charges including supporting the banned neo-Nazi group National Action.

7 April 2020

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Coronavirus: Vanessa Hudgens sorry for 'people are going to die' comments

The High School Musical star seemed to question how serious people dying from coronavirus is.

19 March 2020

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MP sorry for 'get a life' sick pay tweet

Pauline Latham says she was "in a state of distress" when she replied to a constituent on Twitter.

This was a disgusting tweet from an MP - and one she repeated more than once when challenged by another Twitter user.

People are dying; people are panicking. They are looking to their MPs for answers.The last thing anybody needs is unhelpful and insensitive comments like these when all the person wanted to know was what was being done to support those ineligible for sick pay: a worry that’s on the minds of many self-employed, freelance, part-time and zero-hour contract workers. 

17 March 2020

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Police contacted after Piers Morgan targeted with 'malicious communications'

POLICE were contacted after malicious comments were made against Piers Morgan on social media.

12 March 2020

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Heavy breather made up to 16,000 silent calls to care homes

Sadiq Mansoor is said to have targeted staff at four different care homes in Skipton, North Yorkshire, between January and August last year.

10 March 2020