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    The best way of dealing with online trolls? Ignore them – and starve them of oxygen | Stuart Heritage

    As Countdown’s human calculator has shown with her Twitter abusers, blocking them – and not engaging – is a better way of dealing with them
    by Stuart Heritage Sep 18, 2019 2 minutes
    Rachel Riley with perhaps a message for those who troll her. Photograph: Channel 4/PA

    If you want to know what sort of world we live in, Rachel Riley has had to block 1,500 people on Twitter. That’s right: Countdown’s human calculator has attracted such a swell of antisemitic hatred that she has been forced to silence enough people to fill Sadler’s Wells.

    We know how many people Riley has blocked because she is taking part in a campaign urging people not

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