As the country reels at racist online abuse directed at the England footballers Marcus Rashford, Bukayo Saka and Jadon Sancho, news breaks of another form of online trolling, routinely directed at an entirely other kind of target, perpetuated by an entirely other kind of troll.
This week Em Sheldon, a 27-year-old “influencer” — the online self-made celebrity figures hired by commercial brands to advertise products on Instagram — told MPs on the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee that she, along with others of her profession, deal with daily online attacks from people whose “sole mission is to ruin our lives’’.
“I am very concerned that there will be more suicides and more depression because in which other industry are you allowed to be
