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May 26, 2020

Edtech’s biggest threat? Kids

As coronavirus has forced classrooms around the world to move online, kids are getting creative in trying to sabotage lessons


Tim Smith

4 min read

Georgina Farnham, a Barcelona-based English literature and language teacher, was just getting used to the transition to online teaching when, one day, she thought the internet trolls had parked their tanks on her lawn.

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A sample of two Zoom bombing discord servers.
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Tim Smith

Tim Smith was news editor at Sifted. He covered deeptech and AI, and produced Startup Europe — The Sifted Podcast . Follow him on X and LinkedIn

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