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Cambridge prof Mary Beard forces apology from Twitter troll

Television historian and Cambridge professor Mary Beard has forced a Twitter troll to apologise after publicly naming and shaming him.

The male Twitter user had sent an obscene message to Professor Beard that she then retweeted to her 42,000 followers, saying she was "not going to be terrorised."...

Read entire article at ITV