Collaborate Disseminate
It’s found and banned thousands more automated Russian accounts, and it’s planning for detecting such accounts better in time for mid-terms. Continue reading Twitter will email 677,775 users who engaged with Russian election trolls
Trading and trolling with the 4chan of finance. Continue reading You Probably Shouldn’t Bet Your Savings on Reddit’s ‘Wallstreetbets’
Facebook says that Russia-backed posts reached 126 million Americans during the 2016 US election. Continue reading Facebook tool will reveal if you were fooled by Russian propaganda
Godspeed, Bitcoin wizard. Continue reading Bitcoin Nerds Are Trying to Get This Cartoon Wizard Into The Wall Street Journal
The alt-right blogger had almost 70,000 followers, was an utter fiction, and wasn’t alone. Continue reading Meet Russian Twitter troll Jenna Abrams and her 2,752 friends
The 26-year-old man set up fake Twitter, Facebook and YouTube accounts to publish praise for terror attacks and Islamic State Continue reading Troll gets 5 years for framing brother-in-law as terrorist and paedophile
We need to take this seriously. Continue reading A Canadian Conservative Politician Promises ‘Revenge of the Comment Section’
When blocking hate speech, we should look at the source, not the words. Continue reading Scientists Invented a Tool to Expose 4chan’s Racist Trolling Campaigns
Her arguments are meaningless and never end (so she fits right in on Twitter.) Continue reading Twitter bot baits bullies into meaningless and futile arguments
@th3j35t3r writes on his blog:
Simply put. If Jim is blocked by John, Jim can no longer even utter Johns handle/twittername in a tweet. If he attempts to the tweet simply doesn’t process or gets sinkholed. Period. The end. Forever, or until John unblocks him. This approach would not infringe on Jim’s ‘freedom of speech’, he can still say whatever he likes, but he can’t include John. This approach would be self-policing essentially allowing users to decide if they are being abused or harassed and allowing them to take immediate actions without relying on Twitter to minimize the problem effectively. This approach would not be an overhead on Twitters current infrastructure and would require NOTHING by way of extra storage capacity.
Trolls are the ugly side of Twitter, but @th3j35t3r’s proposal seems very elegant to me.
So how about it Twitter?
Find out more, and check out his amusing flowchart, by reading @th3j35t3r’s blog post.