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A revision of a Wikipedia article shows a troll vandalizing an article on Wikipedia by replacing content with an insult.. In slang, a troll is a person who posts deliberately offensive or provocative messages online [1] (such as in social media, a newsgroup, a forum, a chat room, an online video game) or who performs similar behaviors in real life.
A troll farm or troll factory is an institutionalised group of internet trolls that seeks to interfere in political opinions and decision-making. [ 1 ] Freedom House 's report showed that 30 governments worldwide (out of 65 covered by the study) paid keyboard armies to spread propaganda and attack critics. [ 2 ]
Social researchers have investigated flaming, coming up with several different theories about the phenomenon. [5] These include deindividuation and reduced awareness of other people's feelings (online disinhibition effect), [6] [7] [8] conformance to perceived norms, [9] [10] miscommunication caused by the lack of social cues available in face-to-face communication, [11] [12] [13] and anti ...
Elon Musk has been ripped for demanding people share more “positive, beautiful or informative” content on social media platform X. The billionaire has been branded a “hypocrite” for the ...
Trolls are depicted in a variety of media in modern popular culture. Etymology The Old Norse nouns troll and trǫll (variously meaning "fiend, demon, werewolf , jötunn ") and Middle High German troll, trolle "fiend" (according to philologist Vladimir Orel , the word is likely borrowed from Old Norse), possibly developed from Proto-Germanic ...
The Day, Sept. 8, Social media ‘troll’ says he was dressed as KKK member at Mystic rally. Michael Picard, Sept. 10, Facebook message. Michael Picard, accessed Sept. 10, Facebook account.
Journalist Taylor Lorenz rubbed Twitter users the wrong way when she complained about a food delivery order. “I Seamlessed a $22 avocado toast and this is what just arrived,” she wrote ...
The sealioner feigns ignorance and politeness while making relentless demands for answers and evidence (while often ignoring or sidestepping any evidence the target has already presented), under the guise of "just trying to have a debate", [5] [6] [8] [11] so that when the target is eventually provoked into an angry response, the sealioner can act as the aggrieved party, and the target ...