TrollBusters is our solution to help women news entrepreneurs, journalists and women thought leaders combat cyberharassment and trolls online.

1. Offering pest control
solutions for
women publishers
Dr. Michelle Ferrier, Sneha Inguva, Debbie Galant,
Berta Valle, Louisa Reynolds
International Women’s Media Foundation
Hackathon, January 30, 2015, New York
City

2. Online Harassment: 40% and
growing
 Women publishers
experience
cyberbullying on their
sites.
 General news sites
have struggled with
moderating online
commenting.

3. Women Live Online and That’s
Where They Find Us

4. Women Journalists Are Targeted
Online

5. What We Offer
 S.O.S. Team: Countering cyberattacks in real-
time with online community support and positive
messaging.
 RAID: Finding and outing trolls online and
tracking where they operate using network
analysis technologies.
 SUPPORT: Providing technical, legal services
and psychological services; resources for
publishers under denial of service attacks.

7. S.O.S. Team: Just-in-Time
“Attagirls”
• Users who
report personal
harassment are
supported online
with users from
their
communities
• Push alerts go
to people in their
networks.
• Positive
messaging and
endorsements

8. RAID: Community Clustering
Using a
proprietary
technology for
network analysis
developed by
Ohio University
students, we find
and aggregate
communities of
trolls and identify
who else is a
subject of attack.
C.A.T.S.: Clustering Analysis and Targeting System, Ohio University

9. Also Fighting This Battle
 Trolldor | A global blacklist of Twitter trolls
 NoBullying.com | Educational resources
 Southern Poverty Law Center | Map of hate groups
 No Hate Speech | Social media against
cyberbullying
 Cyberbullying.us | Research on cyberbullying
 Committee to Protect Journalists |Fights efforts to
intimidate newsgatherers
 iHollaback | Fighting catcalling on the streets
 Megan Meier Foundation |Fighting childhood
bullying

10. How We’re Different
 We help victims of cyberbullying in real
time by having our community leave
supportive comments at the point of bullying.
 We track top trolls and their nests – out of
their sight – for a verified community of users
who have pledged not to engage in or ignore
hate speech.
 We gather all the resources in one place.

11. : Our
Team
 Dr. Michelle
Ferrier, U.S.A.
 Sneha Inguva,
Indian American
 Debbie Galant,
U.S.A.
 Berta Valle,
Nicaragua
 Louisa Reynolds,
United Kingdom
Offering pest control solutions for women
publishers