Scientific Study on Trolls

by **Phatscotty** on Fri Feb 21, 2014 3:30 pm

bullying and intolerance

by **BigBallinStalin** on Fri Feb 21, 2014 6:24 pm

I see your "bullying and intolerance" and raise you "trepidation and misogyny."

by **Serbia** on Sat Feb 22, 2014 5:26 pm

BigBallinStalin wrote:I see your "bullying and intolerance" and raise you "trepidation and misogyny."

Call.

Bollocks.

by **BigBallinStalin** on Sat Feb 22, 2014 6:07 pm

I got three fish and saxitoxin's Top Ten Best Musicals collection.

by **Serbia** on Sat Feb 22, 2014 8:02 pm

I think someone forgot to deal me in. I got nothing.

Bollocks!

by **AndyDufresne** on Sat Feb 22, 2014 8:20 pm

Serbia wrote:I think someone forgot to deal me in. I got nothing.

Bollocks!

You can play old maid with me, Serbia.

Also, this would be a good avatar. Someone use it.

--Andy

by **TheProwler** on Sun Feb 23, 2014 1:46 am

Politics is designed to perpetuate politics.

Fight the power.

by **mrswdk** on Wed Feb 26, 2014 6:54 am

Row row.

by **Gillipig** on Wed Feb 26, 2014 8:39 am

TheProwler wrote:Politics is designed to perpetuate politics.

Fight the power.

Can't we have a fight instead? Come on, put em up old man!!

by **Dukasaur** on Wed Feb 26, 2014 6:59 pm

mrswdk wrote:Row row.

row your boat...

by **Phatscotty** on Wed Feb 26, 2014 7:24 pm

government trolls

...a new report by Glenn Greenwald, who has been working with NBC News to cover the continuing revelations by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, that claims to have information indicating the British government is actively “attempting to manipulate and control online discourse with extreme tactics of deception and reputation-destruction.”

Greenwald embedded a purported document from the British Joint Threat Research Intelligence Group titled “The Art of Deception: Training for Online Covert Operations.”

“Among the core self-identified purposes of JTRIG are two tactics: (1) to inject all sorts of false material onto the internet in order to destroy the reputation of its targets,” Greenwald writes, “and (2) to use social sciences and other techniques to manipulate online discourse and activism to generate outcomes it considers desirable.”

Some of the tactics described in the document include “[writing] a blog purporting to be one of their victims,” and “email/text their colleagues, neighbors, friends.” Others suggest “[posting] negative information on appropriate forums” and “[stopping] deals/ruin business relationships.”