“Trolls are just getting more and more aggressive and uglier, and I just came from London, where there are threats of rape and death threats,” Barb Darrow reports Huffington Post founder Arianna Huffington said at a conference in Boston. Huffington said the site would rescind anonymity in September: “I feel that freedom of expression is given to people who stand up for what they say and not hiding behind anonymity.”
Jeff Sonderman wrote last fall about how The Huffington Post handles comments: Justin Isaf, then the organization’s community director, told him he and the site’s moderators “work really hard to keep the community safe and enjoyable by investing significant time and energy into pre-moderation to keep…bad actors out.” The Huffington Post receives 25,000 comments each hour, Sonderman wrote.
