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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: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Thursday July 26 2018, @10:15PM
Reading the Wikipedia article on the Fairness Doctrine, it was removed by Mr. Reagan in 1987, and he threatened to veto any attempt by Congress to try to enact it into law.
CNN was founded in 1980, so would have had to live with it for at least those years.
It is unlikely Mr. Reagan actually made any decisions about the Fairness Doctrine during 1987 however, due to his Alzheimer's.
Anyway, the point I am trying to make is that I think you're wrong about Mr. Reagan being a leftist.
He was however very sensitive to criticism, so maybe he was one (by your standards, anyway).