Caught Online (TV series)

Caught Online is an American reality television series hosted by psychologist Dr. Floyd Van Aanholt. Produced by in association with  and distributed by, the series received a trial run as three "pilot specials" from October 14, 2017 to October 20, 2017 on the 's owned-and-operated stations, and premiered for full syndication in March 2018. Based off the Swedish series Trolljägarna, in each episode three people share the hatred they have received online from "trolls" and "cyberbullies", and then Dr. Van Aaholt goes out to get a hold of these anonymous online persons, ending usually in confrontations by Dr. Van Aanholt, partly filmed with hidden camera, of those persons. In many of the cases that the program addresses, the people who have been exposed to online hatred also receive help from Hoenigsberg LLP to claim damages for what they have been forced to go through.

Legal issues
In August 2019, Andrew Kendrick Stefanini, an actor living at the time in who was documented on the show in May 2018 for alleged "trolling", sued NEG USA and NHNZ in the  for emotional trauma and emotional distress. Andrew stated that, despite regretting his decisions and apologizing, he had been receiving death threats and hate mail, got addicted to alcohol, and had been arrested twice for drinking-and-driving. He ended up moving back to his hometown of, with his acting career ruined entirely, and moved back in with his ex-girlfriend and managed the social media accounts for his father's franchise. The parties agreed to a undisclosed settlement on October 11, 2019.