Tracking Trollbots

[Cetacea]

Following CNN's climate forum on Sept. 4, there was an unusually high 700 mentions of climate change in a 24-hour period from the 100,000-some accounts Bot Sentinel is tracking as trollbots.

"It's fascinating to see this stuff happen in real time," he said. "Sometimes we can see literally five or 10 accounts able to manipulate a hashtag because they have so many people following them. It doesn't take that many accounts to get something going."


https://insideclimatenews.org/news/16092019/trollbot-twitter-climate-change-attacks-disinformation-campaign-mann-mckenna-greta-targeted

[SWBTATTReg]

1. Still, it's hard to manipulate tens of thousands on a particular topic, especially high volume...

websites/etc. People are also far more sensitive on the role of trolls and actually, are trolling the trolls more and more. I seen this quite a few times and it is great.

[Cetacea]

2. It's getting better

I've noticed, though, that whenever I read an article or read YouTube comments, the number of trollish posts still far outweigh normal posts. And in the case of articles, the sheer amount of deniers who comment as soon as the article is online is very high.