① The Black Experience on #Mastodon: #Security, #Twitter & #Antisocial #Media🔴https://rb.gy/aiws9

② #Decentralized #Social Networks vs the #Trolls🔴https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZoASOyfvGQ

📌 “Note: since publishing...video...various Black #Fediverse moderators & users...say that the Fediverse doesn't give them sufficient tools to handle abuse. "#Tech can't ultimately solve problems that humans create"...not a panacea for hostility online.” — @DerekCaelin | @derek

#SocialMedia #BlackMastodon #CyberSecurity▼

@subpanel@mastodon.social @aral@mastodon.ar.al

Extremists & malicious actors (including egotists who call themselves “#Digital #Rights #Activist”) on #Mastodon aren't terribly smart. And that's a good thing for #Humanity🔴https://social.vivaldi.net/@B2Spirit/111021173075080296

📌Anyone who needs Wikipedia to facilitate toxicity, negativity and extremism on #SocialMedia clearly never got the memo.

📌Stick with the pros & avoid the #Trolls.

#Security #Productivity #CyberSecurity #Fediverse #Psychology #Tech #Leadership #Disinformation #Bot #Education▼

@subpanel@mastodon.social @aral@mastodon.ar.al

Extremists & malicious actors (including egotists who call themselves “#Digital #Rights #Activist”) on #Mastodon aren't terribly smart. And that's a good thing for #Humanity🔴https://social.vivaldi.net/@B2Spirit/111021173075080296

📌Anyone who needs Wikipedia to facilitate toxicity, negativity and extremism on #SocialMedia clearly never got the memo.

📌Stick with the pros & avoid the #Trolls.

#Security #Productivity #CyberSecurity #Fediverse #Psychology #Tech #Leadership #Disinformation #Bot #Education▼

Wired: The Strange Afterlife of Wagner’s Yevgeny Prigozhin https://www.wired.com/story/prigozhin-wagner-dead-news-disinformation/ #Security/NationalSecurity #disinformation #FalseLeads #Security #Ukraine #Russia #trolls

Wired: The Strange Afterlife of Wagner’s Yevgeny Prigozhin https://www.wired.com/story/prigozhin-wagner-dead-news-disinformation/ #Tech #wired #TechNews #IT #Technology via @morganeogerbc #Security/NationalSecurity #disinformation #FalseLeads #Security #Ukraine #Russia #trolls

I'm trying out something on my blog. It's about the #law #esg #trolls, etc. Have a look.
https://transatlanticlaw.blogspot.com/2023/08/wong-wayne-et-al-vs-new-york-city.html

@rymdimperiet @StuartDNeilson @CatherineFlick well, that's the interesting part. He didn't want to wait, impatient prick that he is. He bought the site with the intent to influence the '22 midterms. And now, he's working on reducing #leftist presence in time for 2024, while increasing the possibility for #RightWing #trolls to run amok. Hence the return of #Trump.

#2024elections
#X #birdsite #Saudi #Xitter
#ElongatedMuskrat

@Franpisunship @fabuland bloqué et signalé ! #trolls

Menschen die Umfragen für ihre eigene Agenda annektieren und Umfrage-Erstellende von vornherein blockieren. Weiß eins da schon Genaueres?

Heute gleich zwei Leute. Denen ich nichts getan habe. Eine Person davon hat dort nachher mit heftigen Beleidigungen um sich geschmissen. Durch die Blockade hatte ich zunächst davon keinen Wind bekommen und sie nicht schnell genug selbst blockieren können. #Melden kann ich das natürlich auch nicht. #twittervibes #trolls

This is the funniest thing that's happened to me on the #Fediverse

I got banned for *not* saying the N-word!

Poa.st is a safe-space for people who want to say the N-word without getting blocked, and I VIOLATED IT!

I trolled the #trolls!

I am SO proud of myself!

#poast #troll

Does everyone forget 2015-2016 when the #gru and Cambridge Analytica ran this exact playbook?
#disinformation #trollfarms #trolls

The goal is to get Americans agitated angry with fake links , reposts and retweets (reX’s?) . Bot Sentinel shout out Chris Bouzy was/is fighting this .

Seems we haven’t learned anything. 😞

https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/17/politics/erica-marsh-fake-twitter-account-real-pictures-florida-trump-voter/index.html

Troll Cat Defenders!

How do you defend your virtual self from real online threats from bored Trolls?

TROLL CAT GANGSTERS!

They're here to scare off all Trolls who believe the only "real" Cats allowed on a virtual internet are those who require hairball Vet care.

TROLL CATS UNITE!

They're just as real as Mastodon is real. In other meows, none of us are alive in the Matrix, especially not even the "real" Cats!

The Uncanny Valley LIVES!

#AI #AIart #Midjourney #Trolls #Cats #CatsOfMastodon

Heh. I must be doing something right on #Mastodon. The #Corporate #Trolls are coming out of the woodwork!

Cite as: arXiv:2308.02202 [cs.CR]
(or arXiv:2308.02202v2 [cs.CR] for this version)

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2308.02202

[Submitted on 4 Aug 2023 (v1), last revised 7 Aug 2023 (this version, v2)]
SoK: The Ghost Trilemma
S.Mukherjee, S.Ravi, P.Schmitt, B.Raghavan
Trolls, bots, and sybils distort online discourse and compromise the security of networked platforms.

#AI #trolls #bots #sybils

@RichForrest2 they aren’t shutting down their Twitter. The main handles are still there. it’s a workplace health and safety issue. If a someone on a supermarket checkout suffered the racist, misogynist, torrents of abuse and bully that public figures are subjected to, a security guard would escort the culprit to the door. Good for #ABCNews. Other media outlets should follow suit. I hope they join the fediverse like the BBC.

Twitter is a sewer. It’s impossible to have a conversation anymore with trolls derailing it. Musk is turning it into a pay-for-access ad platform. My ability to see people’s tweets has been limited to the latest few. It's increasingly buggy.

The more news outlets that jump the better.

#journalism #Auspol #Twitter #Trolls

My latest distraction from work: Using a troll's message as an editing exercise.

I sensed that their message was insincere, and now I've received confirmation.

Their mistakes are familiar to me as an editor. The troll writes from the perspective of a two-dimensional character—let's call him Tom. It's unclear what Tom's motivation is or what the audience (me) is supposed to believe about him. Tom has no voice of his own, so the troll relies on clichés. (1/3)

#AmEditing #writing #trolls

‘BeerBiceps’ Interview of J. Sai Deepak Violates Community Standards, But YouTube Won’t Take It Down

There are several instances of fake news, misinformation and hate speech in the video, which has also led to the harassment and cyberbullying of three prominent citizens.

#hindutva #cyberbullying #trolls #JSaiDeepak #RanveerAllahabadia #misinformation #islamophobia #muslims #christians #FarmersProtests #propaganda #RomilaThapar #IrfanHabib #BarkhaDutt #UnionGovt #BJP #SocialMedia #YouTube #google #BigTech #india #history #histodon

https://thewire.in/tech/beerbiceps-j-sai-deepak-youtube-violations

Dear #Fediverse and #Mastodonians, if you're wondering why it's relatively peaceful over here, thank me.

My cunning plan is a honeypot - a fake Twitter account I created, claiming to be Mike Carlton - that keeps the detritus of social media oblivious to our sweet paradise.

#Mastodon #Trolls #Bots #Twitter #Xitter (pronounced shitter)

@lednabm @JMaverickJacks1 @mekkaokereke You've done exactly what all trolls do, resort to personal attacks, because #trolls do that when a) confronted, and b) they have no legitimate retort.

Your argument is specious, as all blanket statements are.

»The fall of #Twitter is making the #trolls and #grifters desperate: #ElonMusk's business model depends on "triggering" #liberals — but he's now running out of #progressives to bait.« https://www.salon.com/2023/08/01/they-need-us-we-dont-need-them-the-fall-of-twitter-is-making-the-and-grifters-desperate/?eicker.news #tech #media