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The National Science Foundation is spending roughly half a million dollars to combat “online trolling.”
A joint project by Northwestern and Northeastern universities is examining how to create “trolling-free environments” on the Internet. The researchers define online trolls as those who try to influence public opinion by boosting “misleading” and “inauthentic comments.”
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“This project explores re-using this extensive tracking infrastructure for the benefits of both the users themselves and web services, with a goal of preventing online trolling (scenarios in which various groups deploy tactics to influence public opinion on the Internet, by leaving biased, false, misleading, and inauthentic comments, and then artificially amplifying their ratings),” the grant said. “The project aims to show how the tracking infrastructure can be re-used as a user ‘fingerprint,’ allowing a lightweight and privacy-preserving form of identification for third-party web sites.”
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Kuzmanovic and Mislove said online trolling is not limited to political propaganda, but also corporations such as Amazon battling fake reviews on their websites.
“Common for all the above trolling scenarios is not just a fake and biased content; such comments are further ‘amplified’ by voting, a feature often misused by online trollers,” they said.
They could start at CNN... I guess technically that's not online, it's free over the airwaves trolling.
I see the National Science Foundation is now the National Censorship Foundation. I guess the next step is to ban all evidence that contradicts the global warming hysteria.
Who gets to define what constituents trolling and is a troll? The government? All dissent, conservatives and Republicans are trolls !
Look at any deleted posts on here if you have gotten one......some say "trolling" Doesn't seem they have to explain it.
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Doesn't seem they have to explain it.
