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    Police to create a troll-hunting social media unit

    London police to create a troll-hunting social media unit

    The Online Hate Crime Hub will help identify trolls and provide more support to victims of online abuse.

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    In a bid to tackle rising levels of abuse on social media, London's Metropolitan Police is to set up a five-person team of specialist officers tasked with targeting online trolls.

    Scotland Yard will spend £1.7 million on the unit, called the Online Hate Crime Hub, which will provide "targeted and effective services for victims", offer advanced intelligence on offenders and strengthen links between police, communities and social media companies like Facebook and Twitter.


    Although UK authorities have taken steps to outlaw online abuse, victims have complained that police forces have been slow to act or been left feeling like their voices haven't been heard. The Online Hate Crime Hub aims to better support those targeted by trolls, unmasking perpetrators who have operated under "veil of anonymity" provided by social media services.

    "Those targeted can become isolated, living in fear of the online behaviour materialising in the real world," the London Mayor's office said. "The police response to online hate crime is inconsistent, primarily because police officers are not equipped to tackle it."


    The team -- comprising of one detective inspector, one detective sergeant and three detective constables -- will also help police officers and community groups identify, report and tackle abuse, ensuring victims receive the proper level of support.

    https://www.engadget.com/2016/08/15/...troll-hunters/

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    Scotland Yard will spend £1.7 million on the unit, called the Online Hate Crime Hub, which will provide "targeted and effective services for victims"
    Madonna Mia! What happened to the Scotland Yard? They should be investigating rapings, killings, robberies by migrants instead of trolling their native citizens.
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    Internet troll facing jail after violent antisemitic threats to Labour MP


    John Nimmo, previously jailed for abusive messages, sent emails to Luciana Berger telling her she would ‘get it like Jo Cox’

    Wednesday 27 July 2016 08.37 EDTLast modified on Wednesday 27 July 201609.14 EDT



    An internet troll is facing jail for a second time after making antisemitic death threats to a Labour MP in which he told her she would “get it like Jo Cox”.

    John Nimmo, 28, from South Shields, sent two emails to Luciana Berger where he told her to “watch your back Jewish scum”. The second message to the 35-year-old MP for Wavertree, who is running to become mayor of Liverpool, also included a picture of a large knife.


    The messages came just three weeks after MP Jo Cox died after being shot and stabbed following a constituency meeting.


    Nimmo was previously jailed in 2014 for eight weeks for sending abusive messages on Twitter to feminist campaigner Caroline Criado-Perez and MP Stella Creasy.


    His first message made reference to Joshua Bonehill-Paine, who had been charged with a racially or religiously aggravated hate crime against Berger.


    Luciana Berger is standing to be mayor of Liverpool. Photograph: REX/ShutterstockSent at 7.54pm on 6 July, it said: “Justice for Joshua Bonehill-Paine will be sweet, he has friends everywhere. Watch your back Jewish scum, regards your friend the Nazi.”

    He then followed it up two days later with: “You will get it like Jo Cox did, you better watch your back Jewish scum” just as Berger was leaving her office in the early evening.


    South Tyneside magistrates court heard a statement from the former shadow minister for mental health in which she said it had caused her “great fear and anguish”. She said the incident had left her in a state of “huge distress” and “it caused me to feel physically sick, being threatened in such a way.


    “I was extremely concerned for my safety and I felt completely under threat. I had previously received antisemitic messages and threats but the reference to Jo Cox was terrifying,” she said. “The biggest concern was not knowing who this was, for all I knew the offender could have resided next door to me.”


    Glenda Beck, prosecuting, told the court that Nimmo had been on bail at the time for emailing Tell MAMA, a group that supports victims of anti-Muslim hate, saying he would burn down a mosque.

    Chairman of the bench Ian Alexander told him that the seriousness of the offences meant they would send it to crown court for sentencing.

    Along with Isabella Sorley, Nimmo previously pleaded guilty at Westminster magistrates court in 2014 to abusing Criado-Perez and Creasy. The abuse came after Criado-Perez led a campaign using social media for a female figure to appear on a Bank of England note. It included Nimmo telling Criado-Perez to “shut up” and made references to rape, followed by: “I will find you (smiley face)”.

    Paul Kennedy, for the defence, had argued for a suspended sentence, saying “he says these things for attention”.

    “He does not desire to carry out these threats,” he said. He previously admitted two charges of sending malicious communications to Berger and the case will next be heard at Newcastle crown court in August.

    Nimmo was remanded in custody.

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    Instagram Testing Anti-Harassment Tools



    You'll soon be able to block comments by keywords or disable comments entirely for specific Instagram posts.




    Tired of people acting like jerks within the comments section of your Instagram photos?

    You're about to get the ability to slice out their stupidity with a digital scalpel. As The Washington Postreports, Instagram is prepping a content-specific filtering feature.

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    How it works is pretty simple: users of all kinds—not just celebrities—will be able to create blacklists of words and phrases they don't care for. Those looking to use said banned words in the comments section of a user's Instagram post will find themselves unable to do so. And, yes, the blacklist should also work for emoji, too.

    The Post also reports that Instagram will let users flip comments on and off on a per-post basis. That's a much more elegant solution than having to disable them for all of your posts or, conversely, having to deal with comment crap on every post you make because people are trying to troll you on multiple posts.

    Instagram will reportedly first grant high-profile accounts access to the new tools. As Instagram gathers feedback on the new anti-harassment techniques, the company might make some tweaks before it deploys them to its entire user base. The filtering feature is expected to arrive first, with the account-wide, comment-disabling feature coming later.

    http://www.pcmag.com/news/346608/ins...rassment-tools
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