2 Charged in UK for Twitter Threats

When journalist and feminist activist Caroline Criado-Perez successfully campaigned to replace British author Jane Austen with Charles Darwin on the £10 bill, she found herself the target of Twitter trolls who have now been arrested on criminal charges

UK police charged a man and a woman for sending a series of threats to Criado-Perez through the social network.

The two charged were part of a large group of Twitter trolls who threatened Criado-Perez and British MP Stella Creasy in July, after the Bank of England announced Austen would appear on the bills Read more...