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?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 26 2018, @12:40PM (2 children)
"Old school left" or "fascism" as the modern left calls it. Didn't get the memo?
(Score: 0, Troll) by Runaway1956 on Thursday July 26 2018, @02:14PM (1 child)
Dammit, man. I read what you wrote, and immediately thought something like, "Big dummy - it's the left calling the right fascists!" Took a second to soak in. Yesterday's left are fascists to today's left. That's just crazy, isn't it? Sorry for thinking you were the dummy. The dummies are the ones marching to nowhere, while they shout fascist slogans against fascists.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 26 2018, @02:52PM
Get trolled genius!