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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: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 26 2018, @12:25PM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 26 2018, @12:25PM (#713042)

    We've heard this before, from Snowden, how the NSA and their British counterparts politically troll targets. There is a whole series of training documents in his disclosures that talk about how to do it.

    Maybe before these characters worry about what other governments are doing to them they should worry about what their own government is doing to them. Yes, the government they want to keep expanding and paying ever more taxes to.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 26 2018, @12:44PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 26 2018, @12:44PM (#713053)

    they should worry about what their own government is doing to them

    It's okay when they do it. [puppetstringnews.com]

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 26 2018, @07:48PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 26 2018, @07:48PM (#713337)

      Communications were detected the year before between Russian individuals and members of the Trump campaign. You don't think that's worthy of investigation?

  • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Thursday July 26 2018, @12:46PM

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Thursday July 26 2018, @12:46PM (#713054) Journal

    Yes, the government they want to keep expanding and paying ever more taxes to.

    To borrow from the raw-diamond, Albert Doolittle-type philosopher Soylentnews resident that MDC is: "You say it like it's a bad thing"

    (large grin)

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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford

  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 26 2018, @01:12PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 26 2018, @01:12PM (#713065)

    No they're not. JTRIG is not about trolling at all. They're all about disinfo, character assassination and entrapment.