internet trolls

It's been going on for days now, aimed at financial institutions other than banks. Banks went through this a few years back, but their systems can hold out against anything less than state-sponsored attacks, so the scammers have taken it down half a notch, aiming at NZX, PayPal, WorldPay and...

A map of trolling activity from Wired Magazine: https://www.wired.com/2017/08/internet-troll-map/ Interesting in terms of differences between states and between cities. And how there are hot spots. Related to numbers of bridges?

Hasbara trolls are the bane of rational discussion of Jewish or Israeli activities. And that is nowhere better demonstrated than at ISF. So, what is hasbara, and how does it work? Fortunately this is a conspiracy in plain sight, but sometimes the view is a little clouded as on US wiki, where...

Recently, I was talking with a friend of mine about some exasperation I was feeling about dealing with trollish behavior in certain threads on jref. He mentioned coming across a paper about what was called the "dark tetrad," four traits evident, at a sub-clinical level, among internet trolls...

Interesting study. Not sure if this is the right sub-forum. The Psychology of the Internet Troll The paper, in textual or video format, can be found at the above link.