Our #Congress has turned into Internet #trolls.
"In the video, posted early Saturday, Mullin is in the Capitol and recounts how a reporter shot and killed Rep. William Taulbee there in 1890, a year after Taulbee left office. There's a lot we can say about #reporters of the stories they write, but I bet they would write a lot less false stories if we could still handle our differences that way," https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/markwayne-mullin-floats-using-violence-journalists-report-fake-news-rcna199922

¿Han visto las peleas en redes por #ChatGPT y #StudioGhibli? ¿Saben de dónde vienen los argumentos más agresivos y tóxicos?
Lo pueden averiguar leyendo mi #artículo en #LiteralMagazine.
https://literalmagazine.com/toma-esto/
#sociedad #artículos #CulturaDigital #internet #extremismo #trolls #Ghibli #OpenAI #8chan #DisonanciaCognitiva

I don't block the fools who come to fight. The circus is more fun when the clowns show up.

US Troll site Kiwi Farms receives Ofcom demand for Online Safety Act “Risk Assessment”, rejects it on 1A/Jurisdiction grounds, demands MLAT
https://alecmuffett.com/article/113056
#1StAmendment #KiwiFarms #OnlineSafetyAct #cloudflare #ofcom #trolls

Das sind doch alles Trolle?

« Look at my sons! You won't find more beautiful trolls on this side of the moon. », 1915

by John Bauer (swedish illustrator, 1882–1918)
for Walter Stenström's "The boy and the trolls" in "Among pixies and trolls", a childrens' stories book, 1915.

While it's not really a one to one comparison, this same account on Twitter had me blocking hundreds and hundreds of trolls, while here I don't remember a single troll.

On Twitter their algorithm would get this account exposed to more users, many were just trolls.

One example was a post comparing the Roger Stone sentence, to what Willie got. Lots of folks would reply that they didn't think Willie was a real person or the facts were not correct. So I would reply to them, with a link to our website https://justiceforwilliesimmons.org/ At which point many would resort to trolling me.

So while I believe people who say they have problems with trolls on mastodon that hasn't been my experience.

How can this happen? Sometimes, accounts want to follow me that are completely empty, no posts, no communication (even not on their instance). But they have crazily many followers in a very short time. A new scam? Superfamous people under idiotic aliases? 22 K followers - most of them with 0 followers ! for a guy with an idiotic alias and a fake profile photo.

Why do I attract the most frail of attention seeking egos? I think that I'll just block people indiscriminately on #Mastodon from now on, without warning. I'm not here to be a buffer for your vanity or your smugness.

In fact, go out and meet people. Try to do it with them. What are the results? They won't invite you to parties - and it shows.

You have no place in my life anymore either, as I'm cleaning up my digital environment. This means #besserwisser, #trolls & #debatebros get the cutoff.

Got a hasbara troll triggered badly on blue MAGAts platform

A messege to all #Europeans. Remember not to be indifferent to #Russian #propaganda here and everywhere else. We have to fight. #War is not only about battles, but also about information.

#Europe stay strong!

@ukraineinvasion
Are you aware of the fact you are boosting russian trolls ?
#SlavaUkraini #trolls

#Hasbara army #trolls are very active on blue #MAGA BlueSky platform.

#Genocide #Israel #Palestine #Gaza #Propaganda

@palestine @israel

One of my basic hashtags is #ShrugAndBlock.

I'd like to devote a few words to it. Trolls - political or otherwise - exist to stir up commotion, cause chaos and disorientation, dismay and demoralize, and more than anything to cause pain.

#Trolls #Trolling #Pain #Politics #SoMeHousekeeping

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Thomas Dambo’s Trolls are in town! The “TROLLS: Save the Humans” exhibition at the Memphis Botanic Gardens features six of these larger-than-life sculptures displayed throughout the grounds. They are made entirely of recycled materials.
The trolls “made a pact to band together and help save the humans by rediscovering nature and teaching us how to live in harmony with the earth.”
#PhotoFriday #Memphis #trolls #gardens #sculpture #ThomasDambo

I hope we will be spared here, but you can see how other Platforms spread propaganda and influence, with multi-accounts, repeated rhymes until they trend.. and then, Republicans will back it.

REPEATED rhetoric about standing behind the unelected threat to the USA?

#SocialMedia #Influencers #Muskholes #Trolls
#Trollfarm #Musk #Bots