cybermob

English

Etymology

cyber- +‎ mob

Noun

cybermob (plural cybermobs)

1. A mob of people on the Internet or in cyberspace.
   • 2012, Rebecca MacKinnon, Consent of the Networked:

     Anonymity, South Korean legislators had come to believe, was undermining social stability, enabling cybermobs to harass innocent people and cybervigilantes to ostracize and shame people […]