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 ...

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 ...

On Monday, a suspect faced federal charges in a Dallas County court for allegedly sending a strobing GIF that triggered a seizure in Kurt Eichenwald, a Newsweek writer with epilepsy, late last year.

The Epilepsy Foundation filed criminal complaints this month following an attack on its Twitter account that could have harmed people with epilepsy. The non-profit organization announced on Monday it ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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A few days ago, we reported that a Twitter user named John Rivello had been arrested by the FBI in connection to a targeted harassment campaign that was being directed at Newsweek writer and Vanity ...

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 ...

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 a ...

A GIF counts as a deadly weapon, a Texas grand jury has agreed this week. The decision came as part of the case against John Rayne Rivello, who stands accused of sending a flashing GIF to journalist ...