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Into the wild online: Learning from Internet trolls

Andreas Birkbak

2018 · DOI: 10.5210/fm.v23i5.8297
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TLDR

It is argued that Internet trolls are no longer only understood as acting for the sake of controversy itself, but also used to demarcate the boundaries of proper debate, i.e. the label of trolling is expanded to include things like information warfare, hate speech, and sometimes even political activism.