Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. But is online public shaming necessarily negative? I’m a political scientist who studies the relationship between digital ...

“Cancel culture” has a bad reputation. There is growing anxiety over this practice of publicly shaming people online for violating social norms ranging from inappropriate jokes to controversial ...

In 2018, my mother was cancelled by a Twitter mob. “Katie Roiphe can suck my dick,” one user wrote. Others called her “human scum,” a “ghoul,” and a “harridan.” Enraged by the hypothetical contents of ...

EXCLUSIVE — Two House Republicans are proposing the return of public shaming in response to the torrent of bad behavior by their colleagues, like ex-Reps. Eric Swallwell (D-CA) Tony Gonzales (R-TX).

The Sony email hack is making the rounds again—but not for the reason you might expect. Unlike when Aaron Sorkin compared the Sony emails to leaked photos of nude celebrities back in December, there ...