The Epilepsy Foundation is striking back against a co-ordinated campaign by Twitter trolls to flood certain hashtags and feeds with flashing GIFs designed to trigger seizures in vulnerable individuals ...

Samsung’s marketing team is normally first rate but every once in a while they produce an ad that’s… baffling. Not as baffling as HTC’s godawful Robert Downey Jr. ads, mind you, but baffling ...

Sufferers are urging social media users to think before they share. By Amelia Tait Last week Lizzie Huxley-Jones stood stock still in her kitchen, unable to remember how to make a sandwich. “It’s like ...

On Friday, Kurt Eichenwald, a prominent liberal journalist and senior writer at Newsweek, announced that he would be temporarily leaving Twitter after a troll gave him a seizure. According to ...

(CBS) DALLAS -- A Maryland man has been indicted in Texas on a hate-crime charge after a Twitter message induced a seizure in a Newsweek reporter. A grand jury described a tweet and GIF in the case as ...

DALLAS – A Maryland man has been indicted in Texas on a hate-crime charge after a Twitter message induced a seizure in a Newsweek reporter. A Dallas County grand jury on Tuesday indicted John Rayne ...

The FBI has confirmed to both Gizmodo and The Verge that they have arrested a man in connection with sending journalist Kurt Eichenwald a tweet meant to induce a seizure. Eichenwald, who has written ...

Newsweek senior writer Kurt Eichenwald allegedly had an actual seizure after a Twitter troll sent the veteran reporter a flashing GIF that said, “You deserve a seizure for your posts.” Someone ...

On Monday, the Epilepsy Foundation released a statement about its criminal complaints regarding a series of attacks on Twitter. The foundation’s username and hashtags were used during National ...

Sufferers are urging social media users to think before they share. By Amelia Tait Last week Lizzie Huxley-Jones stood stock still in her kitchen, unable to remember how to make a sandwich. “It’s like ...

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A man accused of sending an animated GIF of a strobe light to a reporter who has epilepsy was arrested and charged with criminal cyberstalking with the intent to kill or cause bodily harm. Back on Dec ...