Effort to Expose Russia's 'Troll Army' Draws Vicious Retaliation
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/31/world/europe/russia-finland-nato-trolls.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
As she expected, she received some feedback from people who
had clashed with aggressively pro-Russian voices online. But
she was taken aback, and shaken, by a vicious retaliatory
campaign of harassment and insults against her and her work by
those same pro-Russian voices. "Everything in my life went to
hell thanks to the trolls," said Ms. Aro, 35, an
investigative reporter with the social media division of
Finland's state broadcaster, Yle Kioski. Abusive online
harassment is hardly limited to pro-Russian Internet trolls.
Ukraine and other countries at odds with the Kremlin also have
legions of aggressive avengers on social media.
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