Internet Trolls

What Psychopathic Internet Trolls Can Teach Us About Persuasion

By Susanne Posel

 

 

A team of researchers at the University of Manitoba have concluded that internet trolls display Machiavellian traits of psychopathy.

The personalities of the trolls, according to the study, fall under the labels of:
• Machiavellianism
• Psychopathy
• Sadism

In other words, internet trolls are willing to manipulate and deceive because of a grandiose ego and self-obsessive behaviors that showcase their lack of empathy toward others and highlights their pleasure derived from the suffering of others.

Time spent trolling the internet through comment threads was measurably connected to the level of the “dark tetrad” that individual played on.

Through a questionnaire, 5.6% of participants of the study were admitted to “enjoying” their trolling; while 41.3% of internet users are “non-commenters”.

This means that the internet troll community is quite small; yet has a quite significant impact of the temperament of the internet because of the relentlessness by which they engage their deterring activities.

One possible source of trolls is the National Security Agency (NSA) comprehensive program to search out our schools into scouting grounds for a team of American grown hacker community.

The NSA is focusing on colleges and universities within the US. Four schools have already been singled out as official Centers of Academic Excellence in Cyber Operations (CAE-COP).

The CAE-COP focuses on recruiting persons with “particular emphasis on technologies and techniques related to specialized cyber operations (e.g., collection, exploitation, and response), to enhance the national security posture of our Nation.”

Those chosen for this program become vital researchers expected to assist the NSA in:
• Global communications and computing networks
• Developing a digital strategic advantage
• Collaboration with the US government on cyber issues
• Carry out directives on designated targets at the discretion of the US government

These “cyber operators” are trained to become an elite team of “computer geniuses” that are experts in computer hacking, digital communications, cyber intelligence – for the purpose of spying on Americans; as well as conducting interactive digital psy-ops with users of the internet.

Another source for government-grade internet trolls could be supported by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).

According to Lynnae Williams, former CIA clandestine service trainee and DIA analyst, the FBI and CIA use trolls to monitor social media and interact with users to discredit information disseminated on the web. Williams explains that the CIA provides training videos to new recruits on how to troll the internet. Once a target is locked-in, all open source information is obtained on the individual, and then any angle to discredit them in public forum is used on social media sites.

Software is used to sift through the “mountains” of users on social networking sites. At the Atlanta CIA branch where Williams was trained, she personally witnessed CIA-sponsored and sanctioned trolling of Americans on social networking sites.

In 2011, the CIA revealed its Open Source Center where recruited personnel are used as government trolls to “analyze” websites for information pertinent to the objective of the US government – meaning discrediting targets on certain websites.

Under the guise of conducting business intelligence (i.e. cyberespionage), the Open Source software gathers digital data on targets; including all Facebook posts, Twitter posts, comments on website threads.

Those assigned to monitor this data can interact with users online through anonymous portals.

Agents are designated to surveillance operations to message anyone, analyze political and religious speech, assess trends and conduct electronic eavesdropping through cell phones, satellites and other digital apparatus.

Agents not only survey the internet and interact as anonymous persons through directed postings, but also are deployed to wander through the streets domestically and in foreign nations to monitor newspaper and other printed media to extract useful information about the temperament of the general public.

Susanne Posel | Original Author | Original Copyright Holder

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Dennis Cimino

Recently I made a post on someone’s blog about a radio interview Cimino did with the host. I made comments that I disagreed, or at least questioned, some of the things he was saying. One of the parties I mentioned in my comments was the Jesuits, who Cimino seems to nearly deny any wrongdoing by. In any event, he launched into a vitriolic rant in which he made one patently false statement after another about me.

First off, he said that I made the comment that the host was the only one who made sane statements and that was not what I said, but was taking issue with some of the things he seemed to be going off the rails on.

Second, he makes the comment that I tried to derail the comment section—another totally false accusation and at that point I had only made one comment, while a number of others had made multiple posts that I didn’t even reply to. Then he goes one better and defends someone for her racist comments. For the record, I’m not Jewish or God forbid Zionist, which are other patently false claims he's made about me.

Third, I did not say I “liked” certain parts of the show, as though I were giving a purely emotional reaction to it, which obviously was his response to my post. I said I agreed with some of what he said and thought he made blanket extrapolations on other things.

Then he makes the comment that he has the prerogative to be able to ask the host to have comments removed! It’s not even his blog! He overturns one statement with another when a poster says he wants censorship of posts and Cimino says that’s not going to happen. Well, if Cimino's directing the host to remove comments, that’s censorship okay. To further that point, he goes on to tell the commenters not to make posts about Jesuits in a comment that demonstrates not only bad English but his unrealistic rage.

Apparently, if one makes a comment about Jesuits, Cimino considers them to be “closeted Zionists.”

Then he goes on to tell everyone they should “have at it,” but once again gives his directive to not speak about the Jesuits.

His next comment is that if you only “like” part of what he says and say that, you are considered by him to be a “saboteur.”

He ends his tyrannical rant with yet another order that he will have comments removed per his directive to the host of the blog if he doesn’t like them. Amazing!

Well, suffice it to say that this pathological liar has had his credibility dumped in the toilet for me. He’s a raving lunatic whose comments should definitely be held with suspicion; he’s obviously capable of lying with impunity.

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Thought police-a group of people with totalitarian views on a given subject, who constantly monitor others for any deviation from prescribed thinking

Paranoia-a mental disorder characterized by systematized delusions and the projection of personal conflicts, which are ascribed to the supposed hostility of others, sometimes progressing to disturbances of consciousness and aggressive acts believed to be performed in self-defense or as a mission.


Source: Dictionary.com 
  
It's interesting to observe the human mind that says openly you can debate and comment, but on my watch, you can't talk about certain things, and by God if you do, I'll label you. This is not only double standard, but totally devoid of integrity.