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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, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 26 2018, @03:03PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 26 2018, @03:03PM (#713145)

    they are slaves to authority. Most are even too dumb to realize they're following authoritarian dogmas, unable to think for themselves or stand up for their convictions. They religiously follow what is being put in their heads by the priests of their echo chambers and react butthurt when their ideas are challenged because they're shit. That's the button. Pushing it is funny, because it exposes their hypocrisy.

    Wait, you think conservatives don't do this? Because this literally sounds like church going conservatives.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 26 2018, @06:04PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 26 2018, @06:04PM (#713259)

    Well yeah, that's why the word I used is "religiously". Progs used to be about leaving bullshit beliefs behind and improving the status quo - "progressing". The observed behaviour is a regression.