#techcampgeorgia

1. Dealing with online trolls
Vitaliy Moroz, Internews Ukraine
TechCamp Georgia, 2016

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Populism backed by manipulations as policy-making

5. One Facebook user has decided to check if his
online friends can be manipulated

6. He applied storytelling by means of visuals as “proofs”

7. As a result, many users have not noticed the hoax

8. www.urbandictionary.com/

9. “The paid trolls have made it impossible for the normal
Internet user to separate truth from fiction”
Leonid Volkov, Russian activist

10. trolls vs bots
person behind it
not easily detected
individual style
automated
easy to detect
copy paste

11. What tools are preferred by trolls?
text messages
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YouTube
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Twitter
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Facebook
Wikipedia
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Livejournal
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12. Who are the targets of trolls?
oppositional leaders
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independent voters
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opinion leaders
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journalists
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celebrities
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international community
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13. http://bit.ly/ru_trolls

14. #ColumbianChemicals hoax

15. Practice: analyzing video on YouTube
https://youtu.be/E2J6RvajSaA
ISIS takes responsibility for the explosion in Centerville, LA

16. Unfortunately, fakes can be practiced by anyone
http://www.lemmetweetthatforyou.com/

17. Trolls in Facebook: blaming Ukrainian government

18. Bots in Twitter: sharing emotional fake statements

19. Trolls in Twitter: defending politicians

20. The Ukrainian journalist reacts on troll that stole her photo

21. How to deal with online trolls?

22. ignore
investigate/inform
report/counter

23. Ignore

24. Countering: reporting abuse

25. http://brudno.com.ua/
Countering: Users launched a website to block trolls

26. Countering: Newsrooms instruct how to delete
Russian social media accounts
http://goo.gl/Ppz10l

27. Investigating: what can we learn about social media
accounts?

28. Investigating: online sites to analyze web&social media
https://globalvoices.org/-/special/runet-echo/

29. Investigating: online sites to analyze web&social media
http://verify.org.ua/

30. Investigating: software helps to track trolls analyzing networks

31. Thank you!
@vitaliymoroz @insider_ua
vitaliy.moroz@gmail.com
FB: Vitalii Moroz