‘People are nasty as hell on there’: the battle to close Tattle – the most hate-filled corner of the web

The gossip forum Tattle Life is a trolls’ paradise, created to scrutinise the lives of influencers. It has made a lot of enemies. Will one of them bring it down?

Abbie Draper was so excited when she heard there was to be a big Tattle reveal that she set a reminder on her phone. On Friday, 1 October, at 7pm, Andy Malone was going to reveal the identity of the founder of the notorious website Tattle Life – the mysterious “Helen”.

Founded in 2018, Tattle Life is a gossip forum dedicated to dissecting the lives of women in the public eye. Quietly, without mainstream recognition, Tattle has become one of the most-visited – and hate-filled – websites in the UK. There were 43.2m visits to Tattle in the last six months alone, mostly from British users. (Almost all the people discussed on Tattle are British.)

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from The Guardian https://ift.tt/3HO96do