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When one becomes a target for online harassment, there are usually only two options: to suffer the slings and arrows or to uproot from the internet 鈥� and sometimes one鈥檚 real life 鈥� entirely.

But Jessikka Aro, a Finnish investigative journalist, found an elusive third option: justice.

Ms. Aro compiled award-winning reports on Russian online propaganda efforts, particularly via so-called 鈥渙nline troll factories鈥� and pro-Russia European media. But her work drew the attention of pro-Russian trolls, who began a hate campaign against Aro. She was harassed via social media; she received death threats; and her personal medical records were published online.聽

But Aro took the harassers she could identify to court. She sued Johan B盲ckman, a pro-Russian Finnish academic, and Ilja Janitskin, publisher of the pro-Kremlin website MV-Lehti, over claims including stalking and defamation. The Finnish prosecutor added criminal charges too.

On Thursday, Aro . The judge found Mr. Janitskin guilty on 16 counts, including defamation, and sentenced him to 22 months in prison. Mr. Backman was also found guilty and received a one-year suspended sentence. The two men, along with a third defendant, were ordered to pay 136,000 euros ($157,000) in damages.

鈥�,鈥� tweeted Ben Nimmo, an Atlantic Council senior fellow who studies disinformation. 鈥淪lowly, with trolling.鈥�

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