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Study finds online trolls much more likely to be sadists, psychopaths

15
Feb
2014

Does Dexter Morgan spend his time submitting flamebait posts on 4Chan when he’s not murdering people? That’s the implication of a new study flagged by The Washington Post showing that people who frequently go online with sole purpose of antagonizing others just for the sake of starting conflicts are much more likely to exhibit sadistic […]

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Socialbot Network finds it easy to harvest data from Facebook users

01
Nov
2011

Researchers have claimed that Facebook’s inbuilt security systems are “not effective enough” at stopping automated identity theft, after running a large-scale infiltration of the network using Socialbots. In their paper, “The Socialbot Network: When Bots Socialise for Fame and Money”, researchers from the University of British Columbia describe how they managed to collect private data […]

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