"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; and (2) to use social sciences and other techniques to manipulate online discourse and activism to generate outcomes it considers desirable. To see how extremist these programs are, just consider the tactics they boast of using to achieve those ends: 'false flag operations' (posting material to the internet and falsely attributing it to someone else), fake victim blog posts (pretending to be a victim of the individual whose reputation they want to destroy), and posting 'negative information' on various forums."—Glenn Greenwald
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Showing posts with label internet trolls. Show all posts
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British Intel's Power Point Presentation Describes Their Strategies for Manipulating Discourse on Web
The Costs of the 'Knockout Game' Myth: Woman Fabricates A Knockout Game Attack To 'Protect' Her Abusive Boyfriend - Blamed Black Teens
Of course the Right-Wing spin machine has been very quite about this particular 'Knockout Game' episode.
The woman and her abusive boyfriend were both charged
with filing a false report, a misdemeanor crime.
The woman and her abusive boyfriend were both charged
with filing a false report, a misdemeanor crime.
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The 'Knockout Game' and the Myth of the 'Liberal Media'
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| Adapted from "Day 29: Knockout!" (Photo: Mike Nelson |
"The 'liberal media' is a myth and a lie. There is no liberal media; there is only a corporate media...
"The allure of the knockout game for white conservatives and the Right-wing media (in an era where racism and conservatism are one in the same) is irresistible and instinctive. The supposedly “liberal media” is influenced by similar forces."
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The 'Knockout Game' Is A Myth
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| Knock Out (Photo: Daniel Novta) |
The 'Knockout Game' Is A Myth: Excerpts
The "Knockout Game" is a Dream Come True for Racist White Conservatives
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| Adapted from "Day 29: Knockout!" (Photo: Mike Nelson) |
By Chauncey DeVega
I share no sense of linked fate with Marvell Weaver, the hoodlum who was arrested for playing the "knockout game" and then decided to do an interview with the local news about his exploits.
After watching Weaver's pathetic explanation for the logic of his crime, I am left wondering what happened to shame?
Right-wing trolls are doing their best to play up the foolishness called the "knockout game". It is a new moral panic that combines white anxieties about black criminality, fear of black young people, and stereotypes about "African-American violence" which have been cultivated by white supremacists since Reconstruction.
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The emails, comments, and stories on Right-wing websites about the faux moral panic "knockout game" phenomena are not rooted in a fair concern about crime and youth brigandry. Rather, the "knockout game" meme is rooted in a pathologically white racist obsession with "black crime"--what is alone and unique in its distinction, as white privilege has disallowed any discussion of "white crime" in America's public discourse.
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Is BP 'trolling' its Facebook Critics?: Critics Using BP America's Facebook Page Allege They Have Been Harassed
Has BP hired internet "trolls" to threaten critics of its handling of the 2010 oil disaster?
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| Trolls at The Hobbit World Premiere in Wellington, NZ. (Photo: Tristan Schmurr) |
Dahr Jamail | 20 Nov 2013 18:20
BP has been accused of hiring internet "trolls" to purposefully
attack, harass, and sometimes threaten people who have been critical of
how the oil giant has handled its disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.
The oil firm hired the international PR company Ogilvy & Mather to
run the BP America Facebook page during the oil disaster, which
released at least 4.9 million barrels of oil into the Gulf in what is to
date the single largest environmental disaster in US history.
The page was meant to encourage interaction with BP, but when people posted comments that were critical of how BP was handling the crisis, they were often attacked, bullied, and sometimes directly threatened.
"Marie" was deeply concerned by the oil spill, and began posting comments on the BP America Facebook page. Today, she asks that she remain anonymous out of what she described to Al Jazeera as "fear for my personal safety should the BP trolls find out that I am the whistleblower in this case".
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The page was meant to encourage interaction with BP, but when people posted comments that were critical of how BP was handling the crisis, they were often attacked, bullied, and sometimes directly threatened.
"Marie" was deeply concerned by the oil spill, and began posting comments on the BP America Facebook page. Today, she asks that she remain anonymous out of what she described to Al Jazeera as "fear for my personal safety should the BP trolls find out that I am the whistleblower in this case".
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