Why people become trolls

Spencer Hawken
6 min readApr 5, 2021

And what do you have to do to stop it.

Photo by Setyaki Irham on Unsplash

Until about 6 months ago, I honestly believed that trolling was something that happened to the youth. At 47 years old I’d travelled my life without harassment or bullying, but then out of the blue a hate campaign began, and it took me completely by surprise

My trolling incident began last summer; in my spare time I run film festivals and what started as an…

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Spencer Hawken

A multi-award nominated filmmaker with a passion for travel, film, finance and social media.