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Don't feed the trolls: Highlights from colleges' social media policies for athletes

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LEXINGTON, Ky. – With the backdrop of the Kentucky football team’s ever-present social media-generated storylines this season, Courier Journal set out to gain a better understanding of how college athletics programs educate their athletes about social media and police their behavior on it.

With help from our USA TODAY Network partners, Courier Journal filed open records requests with Kentucky, Louisville and each of the Southeastern Conference public universities for any social media policy or guidelines provided to student-athletes and athletics team coaches as well as any available data about the number and type of punishments from any violations of that policy in the 2016-17 school year.