Communications Major

Internet trolls have learned to exploit our over-militarized police. It's a crime that's hard to stop — and hard to prosecute.

In her upcoming Vanity Fair tell-all, Monica Lewinsky raises questions about the "culture of humiliation" that has sprung up along with the rise of social media.

There's much online chatter this week about Monica Lewinsky, who 16 years ago was identified as "that woman" who gave President Bill Clinton a blow job. (There, we've sad it.) Ms. Lewinsky, a former White House intern is now 40 years old, and she's written a piece for Vanity Fair (which will hit the interwebs next week). In said piece, Lewinsky identifies herself as perhaps the first victim of Internet (or cyber-) bullying. And she may be right. The scandal, which got pretty heavy nonstop circulation back in the Web 1.0 day, is ripe for reexamination in how it would play out in our current social media-frenzied Web 2.0 world. Here's a look at the stories that were making headlines in 1998.