Sentence examples for troll from inspiring English sources

But, as a private company – just like a comedian mulling over a rape joke, or a troll looking for a target for his anger – it could choose not to.

Related: Salutin' Putin: our lives inside a Russian troll house First Look Media, which published the leaks, described it as the UK spy agency's weapon in mastering the dark arts of the internet, a "hacker's buffet for wreaking online havoc".

"People of my generation who grew up with the internet can perhaps spot the troll comments easily.

Trouble comes to the educational psychologist in the shape of a lorry driven by a blue troll armed with a golden cutlass.

The victims of phone hacking, where relationships were destroyed by the apparent betrayal of confidences, experienced the same kind of corruption that is inflicted on debate by the troll factories' capacity to sow mistrust and foster polarisation.

As long ago as 2012 there were leaks suggesting Kremlin youth groups were funding online troll activities.

The nondescript building has been identified as the headquarters of Russia's "troll army", where hundreds of paid bloggers work round the clock to flood Russian internet forums, social networks and the comments sections of western publications with remarks praising the president, Vladimir Putin, and raging at the depravity and injustice of the west.

"Vladimir Putin contacted the French leader immediately, despite the bad relations between Russia and the west," reads the section explaining the conclusion the troll posts should reach.

Related: From Britain to Beijing: how governments manipulate the internet The Guardian spoke to two former employees of the troll enterprise, one of whom was in a department running fake blogs on the social network LiveJournal, and one who was part of a team that spammed municipal chat forums around Russia with pro-Kremlin posts.

But the move comes as the company faces pressure over its self-service advertising tools, which have been used to troll and harass users of the site even after it announced a crackdown on harassment.

It is as though there is a trace of troll in all of us.