Much like Robert Downey Jr. and grungy flannel shirts, animated GIFs are sensations of the 1990s that are enjoying an extended pop-cultural revival. Many pixels have already been spilled explaining ...

The Epilepsy Foundation is striking back against a co-ordinated campaign by Twitter trolls to flood certain hashtags and feeds with flashing GIFs designed to trigger seizures in vulnerable individuals ...

Attackers sent videos of flashing and strobing lights to people on Twitter last month as part of a cyberattack which deliberately targeted people with epilepsy. The attacks targeted the Twitter feed ...

The Epilepsy Foundation filed criminal complaints this month following an attack on its Twitter account that could have harmed people with epilepsy. The non-profit organization announced on Monday it ...

Attackers sent videos of flashing and strobing lights to people on Twitter last month as part of a cyberattack which deliberately targeted people with epilepsy. The attacks targeted the Twitter feed ...

Twitter is banning animated PNG image files (APNGs) from its platform, after an attack on the Epilepsy Foundation’s Twitter account sent out similar animated images that could potentially cause ...

On Monday, the Epilepsy Foundation released a statement about its criminal complaints regarding a series of attacks on Twitter. The foundation’s username and hashtags were used during National ...

A Texas grand jury has spoken in an unusual assault case, and its words read like a science-fiction novel. After hearing evidence that John Rayne Rivello sent a strobing Twitter message to a ...

At least two people have suffered seizures after more than 200 messages and tweets containing flashing gifs were sent to the Epilepsy Society and its supporters in the space of just a few days. The ...

On Friday, Kurt Eichenwald, a prominent liberal journalist and senior writer at Newsweek, announced that he would be temporarily leaving Twitter after a troll gave him a seizure. According to ...

Kurt Eichenwald sat down at the desk in his Dallas home office and logged onto Twitter. The prominent journalist and author was used to Internet invective — especially then, in the weeks after he ...

Zach Eagling was targeted by online trolls who tried to spark epileptic seizures (Picture SWNS) When young Zach Eagling shared videos of himself walking around his garden during lockdown despite his ...