Dangerous Internet Troll Culture--Just Perfect for Trump's Rise

[Different Drummer]

http://www.alternet.org/media/how-rise-toxic-troll-culture-has-made-vast-areas-internet-dangerous-place-just-perfect-donald

[superpatriotman]

1. Funny how the real influencers

Are likely twelve-year old boys.

[tanyev]

2. HRCs posts on Facebook are overrun with nasty comments.

They start appearing within moments of a brand new post by HRC. I've looked at a lot of the profiles and many of them seem fake or perhaps bots, but a lot of them seem real, too. People whose Facebook pages don't have much political stuff on them at all--mostly family and pet pictures. They must be following HRC's page with the express purpose of posting negative comments, but why?

And I wonder why the Clinton campaign doesn't have a few volunteers deleting comments? Many of the commenters are now gloating about how many negative comments there are on Clinton's posts vs how few there are on Trump's posts. No duh. I have so many better things to do with my life than waste time fighting with Trump supporters on Facebook.