In China, they’re called the Internet Water Army: legions of people paid to flood online hangouts with postings and comments (primarily for marketing purposes). And according to academic researchers, ...
News travels fast. So fast, on the Internet, that in a few hours a company's reputation can be damaged, its trade secrets revealed, its stock price slammed ("cybersmearing") or sent through the ...
Editor’s Note: Mary V. Cavanagh is a member of the Litigation Practice Group at Ward and Smith, P.A. The Internet makes it relatively easy for anyone to anonymously post negative and untrue comments ...
More NHL: Scores | Standings | Odds | Fight-O-Meter | League Leaders | Rumors Brian Burke has filed an action in British Columbia's Supreme Court against some Internet trolls for defamatory statements ...
A random Twitter account tags a Japanese company and badmouths it in a series of tweets. Because the tweets are tagged, a search of the company’s name on Twitter will display the tweets with the ...