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Politicized Trolling is More Harmful than Fake News

posted by martyb on Thursday July 26 2018, @11:15AM   
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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Original Submission

• Fake news states... (Score: 3, Insightful) by Entropy on Thursday July 26 2018, @10:46PM

  by Entropy (4228) on Thursday July 26 2018, @10:46PM (#713407)

  That fake news not promoted by themselves is much worse than their own fake news. Their own fake news should be allowed to flourish, but other sources of fake news must be stamped out. These non-corporate sourced fake news are like terrorism, and we have a war on terrorism right?

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