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Politicized Trolling is More Harmful than Fake News

posted by martyb on Thursday July 26 2018, @11:15AM   Printer-friendly
from the I'd-rather-be-trolling-for-fish dept.

canopic jug writes:

Bloomberg is covering a report from the Institute for the Future (IFTF) on an attempt to describe the phenomenon of state-sponsored trolling from a qualitative and quantitative standpoint. While partially conflating trolling with astroturfing in the body of the report, the IFTF defines online trolling as deliberately targeting an individual for "hate" and harassment. Since it is only occasionally possible to attribute the attacks, the IFTF's aim with the report is to empower individuals, researchers, and policy makers to spot the phenomenon in the wild and at least attempt to combat it.

The report itself is entitled, State-Sponsored Trolling: How Governments Are Deploying Disinformation as Part of Broader Digital Harassment Campaigns (warning for PDF)

Ed: How accurate does the report appear to be and are the suggested countermeasures harmful or helpful or both?

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  • (Score: 5, Funny) by LoRdTAW on Thursday July 26 2018, @11:23AM (2 children)

    by LoRdTAW (3755) on Thursday July 26 2018, @11:23AM (#713014) Journal

    (grabs popcorn)

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  • (Score: 2) by Thexalon on Thursday July 26 2018, @05:31PM (1 child)

    by Thexalon (636) on Thursday July 26 2018, @05:31PM (#713238)

    I'll start: Trump sucks, Pence sucks, Obama sucks, Biden sucks, Clinton sucks, Clinton sucks, McConnell sucks, Ryan sucks, Pelosi sucks, Schumer sucks. Putin sucks, Kim Jong Un sucks, Angela Merkel sucks, Justin Trudeau sucks, Theresa May sucks, Xi Jinping sucks, Shinzo Abe sucks, Nikolas Sarkozy sucks.

    Did I miss anyone important?

    --
    The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 26 2018, @07:41PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 26 2018, @07:41PM (#713331)

      You're doing it wrong.