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A revision of a Wikipedia article shows a troll vandalizing an article on Wikipedia by replacing content with an insult. In slang, a troll is a person who posts deliberately offensive or provocative messages online [1] (such as in social media, a newsgroup, a forum, a chat room, an online video game) or who performs similar behaviors in real life.
A troll farm or troll factory is an institutionalised group of internet trolls that seeks to interfere in political opinions and decision-making. [1]Freedom House's report showed that 30 governments worldwide (out of 65 covered by the study) paid keyboard armies to spread propaganda and attack critics. [2]
A troll is a being in Nordic folklore, including Norse mythology. In Old Norse sources, beings described as trolls dwell in isolated areas of rocks, mountains, or caves, live together in small family units, and are rarely helpful to human beings. In later Scandinavian folklore, trolls became beings in their own right, where they live far from ...
Neo-Nazism, hacktivism, [2] alt-right activism. Andrew Alan Escher Auernheimer[3] (/ ˈɔːrənhaɪmər / OR-ən-hy-mər; [4] born 1985), best known by his pseudonym weev, is an American computer hacker [5][6] and professional [7][8] Internet troll. [2][9][10][11] Affiliated with the alt-right, he has been described as a neo-Nazi, white ...
Trollface shows a troll, someone who annoys others on the internet for their own amusement. [2] The original comic by Ramirez mocked trolls; [3] however, the image is widely used by trolls. [9] Trollface has been described as the internet equivalent of the children's taunt "nyah nyah nyah nyah nyah nyah" or sticking one's tongue out. [9]
Groypers, sometimes called the Groyper Army, are a group of alt-right and white nationalist activists, provocateurs, and internet trolls. They are notable for their attempts to introduce alt-right politics into mainstream conservatism in the United States, their participation in the January 6 United States Capitol attack and the protests ...
Russian web brigades, [ a ] also called Russian trolls, Russian bots, Kremlinbots, or Kremlin trolls are state-sponsored anonymous Internet political commentators and trolls linked to the Russian government. [ 1 ][ 2 ] Participants report that they are organized into teams and groups of commentators that participate in Russian and international ...
State-sponsored Internet propaganda. State-sponsored Internet propaganda is Internet manipulation and propaganda that is sponsored by a state. States have used the Internet, particularly social media to influence elections, sow distrust in institutions, spread rumors, spread disinformation, typically using bots to create and spread contact.