“Twenty-eight percent of Americans admit to participating in “malicious online activity directed at somebody they didn’t know,” according to an online survey of 1,125 adults by YouGov — including making fun of a stranger or deliberately making controversial or inflammatory statements meant to annoy strangers. Another 23 percent have “maliciously argued over an opinion with a stranger” online.

In other words, about one quarter of all Americans might be Internet trolls — people who say things that are purposefully offensive in order to upset people.”

Read more from The Huffington Post here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/20/internet-trolls-survey_n_6014826.html

Ana Kasparian (http://www.twitter.com/anakasparian) and Cenk Uygur (http://www.twitter.com/cenkuygur) of The Young Turks discuss the survey. Do the results of this survey surprise you in any way? Tell us what you think in the comment section below.