Online hate is a social phenomenon. When you look at online hate messages, you start to notice clues that suggest, more often than not, that hatemongers are posting messages to each other, not to ...

RSM Visiting Scholar Joseph Walther explains the social approval theory of online hate: that posters of hateful messages are motivated by the approval of like-minded individuals. "When you look at ...

Taral Patel, Democratic candidate for Fort Bend County commissioner, claimed that he was targeted with racist and hate messages online. They clock in, clock out and hit record.