Tag Archives: trolls

Politico reports: The fractured elements of what was once called the alt-right were unified once more on Thursday night in condemning Donald Trump’s airstrike in Syria as a mistake. Or as Milo Yiannopoulos put it, “FAKE and GAY.” This loose confederation of web-savvy, anti-establishment right-wingers formed an important vanguard of Trump’s online support in last year’s election, and its unified …

In a post which freely admits that Trump trolls rigged earlier online polls, today Breitbart mocks the news sites that declined to do post-debate polls last night because Trump trolls rigged the first ones. They write: Everyone knows online polls don’t reflect the electorate. But what they do reflect is the dedication and enthusiasm of a candidates’ online supporters. Both …

Via the Hollywood Reporter: Milo Yiannopoulos, an alt-right hero known for his banishment from Twitter, is preparing a bid to acquire his own social media firm: 4chan. Launched in 2003, 4chan is an imageboard Internet site that allows users to post anonymously. Its roots were in anime and manga, though it has evolved into much more and has facilitated some …

Advocate executive editor Neal Broverman interviewed me recently and today published his story about this here website thingy, our commenting community, and how we deal with the growing troll problem that has forced some sites to do away with commenting entirely. Hit the link to read my kind words about you. This is also a good opportunity to suggest that …

Via AdWeek: If you’ve spent more than three seconds on the Internet, you know it can be a pretty horrible place, swarming with cyberbullies and trolls who’ve turned comment sections into rotting hate-fests and people’s own personal social pages into sources of despair. Coca-Cola hopes to change all that—or at least, steer things in a different direction—with its 2015 Super …

Hit each headline for the story. And well done.

Via Policy Mic: In his new book, Murdoch’s World: The Last of the Old Media Empires, NPR media correspondent David Folkenflik has revealed that Fox News’ public relations department spent years aggressively patrolling the comments sections of blog posts about the network, and responding to criticism (and even neutral statements) from fake accounts. According to Folkenflik, Fox staffers each maintained …

(Tipped by JMG reader Ray)

A musical tribute to internet trolls!

Last month Manhattan Declaration co-author Chuck Colson went to that great Watergate prison cell in the sky, but his legacy of avowed civil disobedience against same-sex marriage lives on. Via press release, here’s their advice on how to troll web articles on the story: At a time when most Americans’ primary concern is their ability to work to provide for …

All comments taken verbatim from YouTube comments about homosexuality.

My “USMC Homecoming” post has been linked pretty much everywhere, bringing busloads of anti-gay assholes in from Yahoo News, Free Republic, New York Daily News, etc. I’ve deleted some of the nastiest comments, including a few death threats made in the name of Jesus. But as they continue to roll in, please do not engage. An ignored troll is an …

According to an article on the front page of Conservapedia, the Christianist version of Wikipedia, my posting (without comment) of an anti-evolution clip is “sulking” evidence of my inability to answer its “15 questions.” Whatevs. I only mention this because we’re already seeing the trolls trickle in. Be advised.

I can’t tell if this Twitter user, who spent much of the weekend tweet-bombing me, is just your run-of-the-mill Christianist troll or a very good Poe account. You decide.

From the parenting website, Baby Center. My neighbor gave my 8-year-old toy dinosaurs. I am a little shocked. She says she is a Christian, but the Bible doesn’t say anything about dinosaurs. Should I let him keep them, as long as he understands that dinosaurs aren’t real? Even the PBS shows that he watches talk about dinosaurs and evolution, and …

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The young woman whose “God Punished Japan” video rocketed around the world yesterday, has confessed that she is actually an atheist troll. The woman, with the username TamTamPamela, uploaded a video in the days after last week’s massive earthquake and subsequent tsunami, claiming the disaster was “God literally waking people up and saying “You are going to hell” However, she …

A 13-year Denver-area police officer has resigned after being exposed as the author of numerous anti-gay and racist comments left on the websites of local news outlets. Lt. Jeff Egnor resigned Tuesday after Douglas County officials confronted him about hundreds of postings on the 7NEWS website, www.thedenverchannel.com, and the KUSA-TV website, according to Undersheriff Tony Spurlock. “A large portion of …

I’ve read this weekend’s lengthy New York Times Magazine article on internet trolls three times now and I still don’t know what to think. (Did the reporter himself get trolled by his subjects?) In a way, I came away feeling like the troll nonsense we have to deal with in the LGBT blogosphere is waaaay less severe than the shit …