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 ...
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 ...
A Texas grand jury has spoken in an unusual assault case, and its words read like a science-fiction novel. After hearing evidence that John Rayne Rivello sent a strobing Twitter message to a ...
A GIF is just as deadly as a gun or knife, a Texas grand jury decided after a suspect was arrested for sending a strobing GIF to an epileptic reporter who immediately suffered a seizure. John Rayne ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hackers broke into the Epilepsy Foundation’s Twitter feed last month to post images of flashing or strobing lights known to cause ...
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 ...
Zach Eagling was targeted by online trolls who tried to spark epileptic seizures (Picture SWNS) When young Zach Eagling shared videos of himself walking around his garden during lockdown despite his ...