Celebrities are More Protected from Cyberabuse than Ordinary People ► FINCHANNEL
The FINANCIAL — Celebrities and famous people are seen as more “attractive” which helps to protect them much more than ordinary people when they are cyberabused, new research has revealed, according to University of Glasgow. While being a celebrity doesn’t make them immune from the cyberbullies, when they do become targets of the trolls these incidents were seen as much more severe than those involving other people. The new research, published in the Computers in Human Behaviour Journal, also shows that at the root of this is the public perception that celebrities are more “attractiv...