User:Cmurr81/Internet troll

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Real Quote "In addition, cyber bullying and internet trolling are both influenced by the anonymous nature of the internet and online disinhibition plays a role in both forms of cyber aggression."

Cited Quote: '''Due to the ability to make yourself unidentifiable online, cyber bullying and internet trolling can flourish in internet spaces without consequence and this is what ultimately feeds into internet trolls being malicious online.  Internet trolling happens online more than people recognize, apps like Twitter, Reddit and Tik Tok are the sites where internet trolls flourish the most today.'''

"This is typically for the troll's amusement, or to achieve a specific result such as disrupting a rival's online activities or manipulating a political process." Check source for this.

"A 2016 study on fluoridation decision-making in Israel coined the term "Uncertainty Bias" to describe the efforts of power in government, public health and media to aggressively advance agendas by misrepresentation of historical and scientific fact." No source, most likely falsified.

"A psychoanalytic and sexologic study on the phenomenon of Internet trolling asserts that anonymity increases the incidence of the trolling behaviour, and that "the internet is becoming a medium to invest our anxieties and not thinking about the repercussions of trolling and affecting the victims mentally and incite a sense of guilt and shame within them". Like this sentence, but I'm going to make it less difficult to read.

More sentences in the "Troll sites" section to edit as well.

In the introduction paragraph, I will add more context about the uses of internet trolling in online spaces using one of my sources. I would replace the second sentence which contains confusing language that may trip up readers, I would use this more direct approach to defining what internet trolling is: Online trolling is the practice of behaving in a deceptive, destructive, or disruptive manner in a social setting on the Internet with no apparent instrumental purpose. This is how I would phrase it in my own words however: "Internet trolling is the action of purposefully causing confusion or harm to other users online, for no reason at all."

I plan to also contribute more to the Usage section as well because although there is good information with credible sources, some sources and references are not recent and relevant. A few sources are from as far back as 2012, which still provides good information however I would definitely add more about what internet trolling looks like in 2021 especially on new social media platforms that weren’t around back then.

"Application of the term troll is subjective. Some readers may characterize a post as trolling, while others may regard the same post as a legitimate contribution to the discussion, even if controversial. Like any pejorative term, it can be used as an ad hominem attack, suggesting a negative motivation.[citation needed]"

Change to: '''Trolling online can be seen in many different forms. More potent acts of trolling are blatant harassment or off topic banter, however the label of an internet troll has become more synonymous with information warfare, hate speech, and sometimes even political activism.'''

"There are competing theories of where and when "troll" was first used in Internet slang, with numerous unattested accounts of BBS and Usenet origins in the early 1980s or before.[citation needed]"

Change to: '''Take this out. Doesn’t add or give more information about the subject.'''

Adding to Usage section:

'''Using opinion manipulation trolls has been reality since the rise of Internet and community forums. It has been shown that user opinions about products, companies and politics can be influenced by posts by other users in online forums and social networks'''.

They could consistently use trolls (Cambria et al., 2010), write fake posts and comments in public forums, thus making veracity one of the challenges in digital social networking.