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Twitter's Worsening Troll Infestation

As Twitter continues to struggle, The New York Times highlights one of the company’s biggest problems: trolls. At The Times writes, “You have to wonder whether the cap on Twitter’s growth is tied more to that most basic -- and base -- of human emotions: hatred.” Indeed, “It courses through Twitter at an alarming rate, turbocharged by this year’s political campaigns and the rise of anti-immigration movements that dabble in racist, sexist and anti-Semitic tropes across the globe.”

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