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, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 26 2018, @06:47PM (1 child)
Remember, the ones ranting the most loudly about something are ranting about their secret selves
- Constantly ranting about homos being unnatural = bottoms at least once a week for worst of the group W bench father rapers
- Constantly ranting about family values = has at least 2 mistress and probably 1 kid out of wedlock
- Constantly ranting about SJW being snowflakes = cracks at the slightest adversity
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 26 2018, @07:03PM
So whining about racial/sexist prejudice means they secretly, uh, what now?
Just saying that rule doesn't always work, but it is amusing.