‘A loser who will do anything for attention’: In the industry of online slander

Online slander and the self-proclaimed good guys who help remove it are often one and the same, say Aaron Krolik and Kashmir Hill

We might have been victim to trolls but there is worse to come (Getty/iStock)

I wanted to slander someone.

A colleague and I were trying to learn who is responsible for – and profiting from – the growing system of websites whose primary purpose is destroying reputations.

So I wrote a nasty post. About myself.