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Why the Internet Is Thriving as an Incubator for Hate
Joel Stein, columnist at Time magazine and author of Man Made: A Stupid Quest for Masculinity (Grand Central Publishing; ISBN-10: 0446573124, and Debjani Roy, deputy director of Hollaback! (an organization dedicated to ending harassment in public spaces), discuss how the culture of hate and trolling is terrorizing the internet, after actor Leslie Jones became a victim of cyberbullying last week.
@BrianLehrer Women and POC can't even write about their normal lives free of trolling--LET ALONE write about issues and rights
— danielle guercio (@_adhd) August 30, 2016