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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, Insightful) by DeathMonkey on Thursday July 26 2018, @05:26PM (4 children)

    by DeathMonkey (1380) on Thursday July 26 2018, @05:26PM (#713235) Journal

    ...they shouldn't cry those little snowflake tears...

    You mean snowflakes like Donald Trump. Who melted because a reporter asked a question and then demanded she be censored?

    A CNN reporter has been barred from a White House event for asking Donald Trump "inappropriate" questions. [bbc.com]

    Remember how triggered the right wing was when Obama merely contemplated the idea, but didn't actually ban anyone?

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  • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Thursday July 26 2018, @05:58PM (2 children)

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Thursday July 26 2018, @05:58PM (#713257) Journal

    Donnie's tears are the wrong flavor for me. Those are entitled rich boy tears. I suppose they're alright for some people, but they just don't taste good to me. All I've ever wanted to do with Trump was to punch him in the nose for being such an arrogant cocksucker.

    Liberal tears are tasty, tasty, tasty!

    As for banning a reporter - well - I'm banned from the White House. Based on my history of letters to the White House, neither Obama's nor Trump's administration would have been willing to allow me to question the president - on ANY subject.

    But, neither Obama nor Trump are the first to ban a particular reporter from the White House.

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1995/09/17/big-ben/c4229dac-f60b-402a-8262-e8d2514a0947/ [washingtonpost.com]

    The Nixons had refused to accredit Post reporter Judith Martin to cover the White House on the wedding day. They didn't like Post reporters in general, but they particularly did not like stories she had written about the family. Any other reporter, but not Judy, we were told.

    I could probably find more, if I tried.

    Additionally, reporters are banned from my property. There's nothing I can do about them taking photos from the highway, but they can't come on my property. Since I actually "own" half of the county dirt road coming off of the highway, I'll file trespass charges against any reporter who drives all the way down here to my house. Unless, of course, I actually invite a reporter to come visit.

    • (Score: 4, Informative) by DeathMonkey on Thursday July 26 2018, @06:51PM

      by DeathMonkey (1380) on Thursday July 26 2018, @06:51PM (#713304) Journal

      So the only two presidents to ever ban a reporter were Conservatives. I thought you said those were the pro-free-speech people?

    • (Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Thursday July 26 2018, @06:53PM

      by DeathMonkey (1380) on Thursday July 26 2018, @06:53PM (#713306) Journal

      Yes, Runaway, war is peace and "don't be a fascist" is a fascist slogan.

  • (Score: 5, Touché) by DeathMonkey on Thursday July 26 2018, @08:06PM

    by DeathMonkey (1380) on Thursday July 26 2018, @08:06PM (#713344) Journal

    I thought it was only liberals who modded down things they disagree with.