Apart from banners, posters, notices, and direct canvassing, students are using media such as WhatsApp and Facebook for college union elections. Internet trollers are ruling the roost in the college union election campaign across the State. When colleges under Calicut University go to polls on Thursday, social media campaign, particularly campus-specific trolls, will most likely influence the results. Negative trollingVineet is part of a group that manages the social media campaign for SFI on Malappuram campus. Leaders of SFI, MSF, KSU, and ABVP said they were using separate pages and groups for election trolling.

Source: The Hindu October 20, 2016 00:10 UTC