Can you outsmart a troll (by thinking like one)? - Claire Wardle

Explore the strategies employed by trolls and learn how disinformation campaigns are launched— and how to stop them.

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Your town is holding a mayoral election and the stakes have never been higher. You suspect one of the candidates will begin pushing false information to swing the election. As the cybersecurity expert, your job is to inoculate the townspeople against false information. First, you must learn the strategies of disinformation trolls. Claire Wardle explores the tactics of disinformation campaigns.

Lesson by Claire Wardle, directed by Gavin Edwards.

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[QuestionEverythingButWHY]

“The point of modern propaganda isn't only to misinform or push an agenda. It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.”
― Garry Kasparov

[lebronjames]

"The only way to Troll a Troll, is to become a Troll"
-*The Troll Handbook*

[adoredpariah]

Critical thinking and media literacy, through our systems of education one would hope. Thanks for attempting to bring those concepts to people in easily digestible ways, very respectable.

[leezerooo]

In my country, the Philippines, a significant portion of our taxes is spent on the misinformation machineries of politicians. It's quite sad that our leaders would rather divide people for their own self-interests rather than educating and uniting them for common good.

[secret]

Let's take a moment to appreciate the editors and animators.

[manandahalfx]

I want to vote for Joanna B. Greene, but heard she's trafficking children out of pizza restaurants.

[allonzehe]

What's that 2019 study you referenced? That sounds like a very useful study to read. If it helped beat disinfo we should have everyone play that game.

[hhdhpublic]

Really, media literacy should be taught in schools.

[azfarahsan]

ted ed: i used the misinformation to destroy the misinformation

[thesenate]

How to handle a Troll
Google: turn off your computer
Ted Talk: troll them back
Bing: hunt them down

[tuckergregory]

"Don't create a how-to manual"
And yet this video is a pretty effective how-to manual.

But in all seriousness, this is good information. Additionally, knowing the strategies of the bad can help innocent people seem less bad by avoiding accidentally doing things similar to that.

[Cherry-da-bomb]

Video: *how to sway votes in your favor*

Among us players: *interesting*

[sylv]

Did anyone else expect "How to outsmart an actual troll?" Like, the mythical creature?

[neonlights]

Lmao the names: joanna b green n stannis quo

[JesusMartinez-rrry]

I expected actual internet trolls. You know, those that love to enrage people and cause widespread trouble throughout the internet.

[QuestionEverythingButWHY]

“Whoever controls the media, controls the mind”
― Jim Morrison

[Justanothermusicnerdxo]

This video harms more than helps. The default response in political discussion online is always “this user doesn’t share the same worldview as me therefor they are a bot”.
This goes for every side and every aspect of the political spectrum.

For myself this is the largest deterrent to expressing any political idea online because no matter who you side with (and especially if you side outside of mainstream 2 party thought in America) you will be called a fake account, “not a real person”, trying to spread misinformation by bringing up view points that don’t align with someone, even if they are backed by institutions and studies.

It’s a very Orwellian concept that all opposition to ones political ideas are fake, bots, or misinformation. It is far more likely that someone disagrees with you than some advanced intricate misinformation campaign being behind these ideas.

[rotatingdisc-]

Shout outs for literally just calling the guy "Stannis Quo."

[richwood]

This was a great tutorial on how to troll but very very little was given to actually fight back or to do something about the disinformation that is being spread. I think a part 2 is in order.

[andresallegre]

this is literally why my student council didn't win, our opponents created various false rumors about us and they ended up winning. now we're stuck with this student council who does NOTHING :(