CONWAY — A virtual candidate forum hosted by a local unit of the League of Women Voters had to be halted Tuesday after it was taken over by "Zoom-bombers" who flooded attendees' computer screens with obscene images.
Zoom-bombing, according to Wikipedia, is "the unwanted, disruptive intrusion, generally by internet trolls, into a video conference call."
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