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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: 4, Funny) by c0lo on Thursday July 26 2018, @12:41PM (3 children)

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Thursday July 26 2018, @12:41PM (#713051) Journal

    It conflates not just trolling and astroturfing, but tries to paint actual, voluntarily and autonomously acting trolls into the same corner as the for-profit gang stalkers hired by politicians and regimes.

    Oh, what has come with this world! I tell yea, the noble pure art of trolling is no more, the politicians and corporation raped it and discarded it dishevelled on the side of the road.
    Nobody recognizes anymore the value of genuine, sincere trolling and, thus, conflates paid-for mercenary trolls with the useful idiots!

    (grin - an unpoliticised trollish one)

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  • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Thursday July 26 2018, @02:15PM (1 child)

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Thursday July 26 2018, @02:15PM (#713096) Journal

    Did you say "Embrace, extend, extinguish"?

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    • (Score: 2) by RS3 on Thursday July 26 2018, @04:49PM

      by RS3 (6367) on Thursday July 26 2018, @04:49PM (#713217)

      Did you say "Embrace, extend, extinguish"?

      Oh, please don't bring Microsoft into this mess!

  • (Score: 2) by bob_super on Thursday July 26 2018, @09:07PM

    by bob_super (1357) on Thursday July 26 2018, @09:07PM (#713364)

    I only provide the finest never-frozen organic artisan small-batches fair-trade non-GMO trolling, but I can't compete against the industrial-grade high-output stuff we often see around here.
    I have long deserted markets that were overtaken, and where the consumer seems to lack a proper discriminatory palate.