Trolls are breaking into AA meetings being held via video conferencing

Then, halfway through the meeting Tuesday morning, members heard a man’s voice shouting misogynistic and anti-Semitic slurs, along with crass references to drinking.

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“Alcohol is soooo good,” the voice said, a meeting participant told Business Insider.

Meeting organizers were able to quickly mute the intruder and remove them from the meeting — but by then, the meeting had been derailed, and more than half the participants had left.

The digital break-in was one of the latest instances of “Zoom bombing,” a tactic in which trolls scour the internet for links to video conferences and then harass participants. The FBI issued a warning about Zoom bombing Monday after multiple schools’ web conferences were disrupted by trolls.

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