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Why are there so many trolls on Social Media?
Quite simply, they are effective...!
....so long as we play along, that is.
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#DontFeedTheTrolls
#disinformation
Quite simply, they are effective...!
....so long as we play along, that is.
🧵
#DontFeedTheTrolls
#disinformation
A troll is someone (or a bot) whose purpose is to derail a tweet or tweeter.
Wiki: “…a troll is a person who posts inflammatory, insincere, digressive, extraneous, or off-topic messages…”
They want to distract, usually from uncomfortable truths.
Wiki: “…a troll is a person who posts inflammatory, insincere, digressive, extraneous, or off-topic messages…”
They want to distract, usually from uncomfortable truths.
There are a number of reasons for doing so:
“This is typically for the troll's amusement, or to achieve a specific result such as disrupting a rival's online activities or manipulating a political process”
“This is typically for the troll's amusement, or to achieve a specific result such as disrupting a rival's online activities or manipulating a political process”
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1/ Really important report by @CommissionCE today explores how hate creates space for the “moral case for violence” while stopping short of the threshold for criminal prosecution. independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n…
2/ Sara Khan, the Lead Commissioner (and formerly CEO of Inspire), deserves a lot of credit for taking on all forms of hate in this report and recognising how hate and intolerance on any side breeds further hate on all sides and can legitimate extremism and violence.
3/ UK anti-hate infrastructure has at times been unfairly labelled as inherently racist and anti-Muslim, because it grew considerably in response to Islamist terrorism. I'm proud that people like Sara, from the Muslim community, lead the fight for tolerance and against hate.
1/ This week saw a perfect, utterly depressing example of the brittle, angry, accusatory style of social media discourse bleeding into our offline world, in this instance, the chamber of the House of Commons.
2/ The reason social media is so important in politics is because it purports to approximate the vox populi. But it doesn’t. The notifications that flash up on MP’s screens are from folks engaged and motivated enough to get in touch.
3/ So they’re either laudatory – which are of course lovely to receive. Or horrible – which are not. This serves to normalise a sense among political and media classes that the nation is irrevocably polarised and split.
Across from the Howard Schultz event.
Advice from the big man himself.
Whoooo! Reception is not good at the Moore and wifi is overloaded.
