| Title | The Swedish Troll Hunters | |
| Date | Thursday December 18 2014, @07:22PM | |
| Author | janrinok | |
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| from the looking-under-bridges dept. | ||
The MIT Technology Review has an article up on Swedish journalists and researchers who expose internet trolls.
Back at the Troll Hunter office, a whiteboard organized Aschberg’s agenda. Dossiers on other trolls were tacked up in two rows: a pair of teens who anonymously slander their high school classmates on Instagram, a politician who runs a racist website, a male law student who stole the identity of a young woman to entice another man into an online relationship. In a sign of the issue’s resonance in Sweden, a pithy neologism has been coined to encompass all these forms of online nastiness: näthat (“Net hate”). Troll Hunter, which has become a minor hit for its brash tackling of näthat, is currently filming its second season.
This article covers the television show Trolljägarna (Troll Hunter), and the activities of a group of volunteer researchers called Researchgruppen (Research Group) in tracking and exposing internet trolls and touches on the privacy issues and potential backlash from other groups of this kind of work.
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