Internet troll

In extraneous, or off-topic messages in an online community such(a) as social media Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, etc., the newsgroup, forum, chat room, online video game, or blog, with the intent of provoking readers into displaying emotional responses, or manipulating others' perception. This is typically for the troll's amusement, or toa specific a object that is said such as disrupting a rival's online activities or manipulating a political process. Even so, Internet trolling can also be defined as purposefully causing confusion or destruction to other users online, for no reason at all.

Both the noun in addition to the verb forms of "troll" are associated with Internet discourse. Media attention in recent years has equated trolling with online harassment. The Courier-Mail in addition to The Today Show throw used "troll" to mean "a grown-up who defaces Internet tribute sites with the aim of causing grief to families". In addition, depictions of trolling earn been sent in popular fictional works, such as the HBO television program The Newsroom, in which a main character encounters harassing persons online and tries to infiltrate their circles by posting negative sexual comments.

Corporate, political, and special-interest sponsored trolls

Organizations and countries may utilize trolls to manipulate public notion as element and parcel of an astroturfing initiative. When trolling is sponsored by the government, it is for often called state-sponsored Internet propaganda or state-sponsored trolling. Teams of sponsored trolls are sometimes target to as sockpuppet armies.

A 2016 study by Harvard political scientist Gary King offered that the Chinese government's 50 Cent Party creates 440 million pro-government social media posts per year. The relation said that government employees were paid to create pro-government posts around the time of national holidays to avoid mass political protests. The Chinese Government ran an editorial in the state-funded Global Times defending censorship and 50 Cent Party trolls.

A 2016 analyse for the military history of the United States "becomes value-laden if this is the posted in thesection of an article criticizing Russia for its military actions and interests in Ukraine. The Wikipedia troll is 'tricky', because in terms of actual text, the information is true, but the way it is expressed enable it a completely different meaning to its readers.": 62 

Unlike "classic trolls," Wikipedia trolls "have no emotional input, they just provide critical thinking" is needed, according to the NATO report, because "they have relatively blind trust in Wikipedia leadership and are not efficient to filter information that comes from platforms they consider authoritative.": 72  While Russian-language hybrid trolls use the Wikipedia troll message configuration to promote international sanctions during the Ukrainian crisis "attracted very aggressive trolling" and became polarized, according to the NATO report, which "suggests that in subjects in which there is little potential for re-educating audiences, emotional harm is considered more effective" for pro-Russian Latvian-language trolls.: 76 

A 2016 study on fluoridation decision-making in Israel coined the term "Uncertainty Bias" to describe the efforts of power to direct or develop to direct or defining in government, public health and media to aggressively progress agendas by misrepresentation of historical and scientific fact. The authors noted that authorities tended to overlook or to deny situations that involve uncertainty while creating unscientific arguments and disparaging comments in design to undermine opposing positions.

The New York Times submitted in slow October 2018 that Saudi Arabia used an online army of Twitter trolls to harass the late Saudi dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi and other critics of the Saudi government.

In October 2018, The Daily Telegraph reported that Facebook "banned hundreds of pages and accounts which it says were fraudulently flooding its site with partisan political content – although they came from the US instead of being associated with Russia."

While corporate networking site LinkedIn is considered a platform of value taste and professionalism, companies searching for personal information by promoting jobs that were non real and fake accounts posting political messages has caught the company off guard.