Has one Vox Political reader revealed the tactics of digital disruption? We examine strange patterns in online comment warfare. #Propaganda #TrollTactics #VoxPolitical
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🧵 2. 🤡 Poe’s Law: How Satire Died and Extremism Laughed
What if you couldn’t tell a joke from a threat?
That’s not a hypothetical.
That’s the internet — and it’s why Poe’s Law is one of disinfo’s sharpest tools.👇
#PoesLaw #Disinformation #TrollTactics #MediaLiteracy
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Takeaways — How to Spot a Social Fake
#MediaLiteracy #SpotTheFake #BehavioralSignals
Recap — Trolls Win When You Think They're Just Loud
#TrollTactics #NarrativeWarfare #BehavioralDetection #PostTruth
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Detection at Scale — What This Means Going Forward
#Disinformation #TrollDetection #PlatformAccountability
From Trolls to Trends — When Behavior Becomes Influence
#Disinformation #NarrativeControl #TrollTactics
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Identity Crafting — Race, Region, and Relatability
#TrollTactics #IdentityOps #Disinformation
Four Types of Trolls — Not All Fakes Work the Same
#TrollTypes #Astroturfing #SocialEngineering
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Camouflage Content — Memes, Pets, and Monday Vibes
#Disinformation #TrollTactics #SocialCamouflage
Astroturfing — Fake Movements, Real Consequences
#Astroturfing #Disinformation #TrollTactics
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Complete Thread Index & Hashtags
The Trolls Were Never Just Bots
#TrollTactics #Disinformation #SocialEngineering
The Social Footprint — Why Trolls Have to Act Human
#TrollTactics #Disinformation #SocialEngineering
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That’s what this series has been about:
Not just exposing trolls—
But showing how the system itself favors the inauthentic.
And what we can do to stay alert.
#TrollTactics #NarrativeWarfare #BehavioralDetection #PostTruth
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#TrollTactics #Disinformation #PostTruth
Let’s recap what this series uncovered, based on the 2023 study by Swed et al.,
📄 Keeping it Authentic: The Social Footprint of the Trolls’ Network
🔗 arxiv.org/abs/2409.0...
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From Trolls to Trends—When Behavior Becomes Influence
Trolls didn’t need millions of followers
They didn’t need to go viral
They just needed to act like everyone else
Because once their behavior shaped the feed, they shaped reality
#Disinformation #NarrativeControl #TrollTactics
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Four Types of Trolls — Not All Fakes Work the Same.
Disinformation accounts don’t all shout the same slogans.
Some play it loud.
Some blend in.
Some look like news.
The 2023 study found 4 troll types—each optimized for influence.
#TrollTactics #Disinformation #Astroturfing
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That’s why disinfo can’t be fact-checked out of existence.
It isn’t about truth.
It’s about trust.
And trolls know which identities you trust most.
#IdentityOps #TrollTactics #SocialEngineering #Disinformation
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#TrollTactics #IdentityOps #Disinformation
The 2023 study showed trolls didn’t just act like Americans.
They impersonated specific Americans:
🔹 Black activists
🔹 White Southern patriots
🔹 Military families
🔹 Christian moms
Each one chosen for a reason.
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This is why detection can’t just look for trolls yelling fake news.
The most dangerous ones sound like they care—because that’s how they earn your trust.
#Astroturfing #FakeMovements #SocialEngineering #TrollTactics
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#Astroturfing #Disinformation #TrollTactics
This tactic is called astroturfing.
It’s the opposite of grassroots.
It looks like a bottom-up movement—
But it’s top-down manipulation, built to look authentic.
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#Disinformation #TrollTactics #SocialCamouflage
Here’s the big twist in the 2023 study:
More than 50% of troll content had nothing to do with politics.
It wasn’t designed to persuade.
It was designed to blend in.
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#TrollTactics #Disinformation #SocialEngineering
Disinformation isn’t just about what you say.
It’s about how you say it—
When you post, who you tag, what you repeat, how often you engage.
That’s your social footprint.
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#TrollTactics #Disinformation
The Trolls Were Never Just Bots.
#SocialEngineering
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#Disinformation #TrollTactics #SocialEngineering #CognitiveWarfare
🔗 Source: Swed et al. (2023)
arxiv.org/abs/2409.0...
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#TrollTactics #Disinformation #SocialEngineering
This isn’t a thread about 2016 nostalgia.
It’s about what disinformation really looks like—and what we still get wrong.
A 2023 study looked deep into Russian troll behavior.
What it found was chilling in its simplicity.
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#trolltactics #trolls
2024 save
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2025 save
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💥 Messing with the NYPD’s wild goose chases! 💭 What if we keep calling them from random spots about “that guy” they’ll never find? Chaos mode: activated. 🚨 They’re already lost—let’s make it a game! 😏
#NYPD #PrankIdeas #ChaoticEnergy #TrollTactics #StreetJustice #SocialExperiment #Comedy #PrankTok
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My first year here was ROUGH: I sparred with many a #climatechange denier, plus swarms of generally unpleasant trolls. I learned how to spot them, all about their #trolltactics, and how to parry their nasty noise.
I also blocked a LOT of the above, which helped a ton too.👍
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Learn to spot #trollfarm accounts.🧌👀
Check profiles for major red flags or shared Follows / Followers.
They use common talking points, plus typical #trolltactics like Whataboutisms or Ad Hominem attacks.
Their goals: push doubt, division, deflection and disinformation daily.
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Disinformation on #climatechange is everywhere on #socialmedia and the trolls who push it use many common #trolltactics to sow doubt and deflect discussion away from facts and solutions.👹📲
This is a good example of such: a denier pushing doubt without any actual evidence.⛔🤨
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2/3 Take careful note of how he frames his replies, ALWAYS casting doubt on his target's knowledge while NEVER providing any sources to support his opinions.
Classic misdirection and manipulation #trolltactics.
Learn how to spot such specific troll language use and techniques.
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PS - trolls will often try to KEEP you engaged by 'reply begging' and using emotional levers like "Why won't you reply?" and other #trolltactics.
Knowing how to tell honest discussion from trollbait is vital, as the latter will sap your energy and time.
https://www.spotthetroll.org
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PS - go check out its replies.
Learn to recognize such #trolltactics, folks.
Such accounts rarely have any responses to their #trollnoise, so don't bother replying / arguing with them.
Just Block them ALL, to lower their engagement to where they're stuck in the More Replies.🚫
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