- This page is a growing list of people who are also studying digital manipulation.
- Each have their own agenda and reason for doing this work,
- If they are listed here I find their work Useful.
- I cannot vouch for their ongoing authenticity, reliability or accuracy - after all we are hunting trolls, and sometimes trolls pose as troll hunters.
an active page with a great and growing list of Troll Farm related Terms
The #NAFO Movement
This is an X (Twitter ) a global online community that has been running 24 hours a day since the first shot of the Russian invasions of Ukraine- I found real Experts, military of all branches and countries, non-profits, journalists, statisticians, Intelligence analysts, government lobbyists, Film makers, PHD political and historical experts, mostly reliable, teaching a community that includes people like me how to gather, listen to and analyze the information we were getting about the war. I know that community also includes frustrated trolls, since I hear them speak up frequently.
The work of Pekka Kallioniemi a university Professor from Finland who has studied media manipulation and propaganda, and has a funny and educational set of media including videos. I am shamelessly stealing some of his terms and concepts - His utube channel is great- vatniksoup
- Basic computer programming Semi-automated bots that post human-generated, nontailored content
- Early machine learning Low-quality manipulated videos; limited computer-generated content with limited scale; some distribution by procedural bots
- Generative AI High-quality tailored fake text and images at scale; advanced, dynamic, automated distribution and coordination
Technology and Social Change Project (Harvard Business School )Ended in 2023, but here are their Archives
In the run-up to the 2020 election, popular pages on FB for Christian and Black Americans were being run by Eastern European troll farms....here is the rest
MIT Tech Review article 2020 - they found 5 troll Farms- FB took down 2 of them after the article
MIT Technology Review is a bimonthly magazine wholly owned by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and editorially independent of the university. It was founded in 1899 as The Technology Review, and was re-launched without "The" in its name on April 23, 1998, under then publisher R. Bruce Journey. In September 2005, it was changed, under its then editor-in-chief and publisher, Jason Pontin, ... Wikipedia
y= was controlled by Troll Farms in 2019-check today to see if they still are
Report on Chinese Deepfake Videos via MIT Tech Review
a great History of Trolling and How it became a business Model.
Media Bias raters
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