{"id":4944,"date":"2019-06-08T19:28:45","date_gmt":"2019-06-09T02:28:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/?p=4944"},"modified":"2019-06-08T19:29:11","modified_gmt":"2019-06-09T02:29:11","slug":"the-trouble-with-trolls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/?p=4944","title":{"rendered":"The Trouble with Trolls"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I am always appalled by the number of trolls I see on politician&#8217;s social media page (FB).  Then I wondered, does EVERYONE have such prolific internet hecklers?  Or is it just the women, or black candidates that I follow?  Is it around social justice issues?  Or is this a problem across the board.<br><br>Now, I didn&#8217;t do a comprehensive study (yet \ud83d\ude09 ) but I did take a quick glance at people like Lindsey Graham, Shelley Moore Capito, , Tom Cotton and a few others who are up for re-election in 2020.  Go see for yourself &#8230; compare these (or other GOP) to say Kamala Harris, or Sheldon Whitehouse or Cory Booker.  <br><br>Not only are the TROLLS exponentially more active on the blue candidates .. facebook &#8220;ranks&#8221; the comments as MOST RELEVANT that are from the opposition.  Usually filled with hostile, irrelevant, fake news-esque barbs.  (Remember FB gets money each time we &#8220;engage&#8221; so it&#8217;s no surprise that their algorithms are set to stir the pot.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I use to say &#8220;Don&#8217;t Engage The Rage&#8221; because I understood that Facebook is baiting us.  But the more I see this trend, I do believe these attacks (hacks) make a difference.  I think that the (paid? russian?) trolls have so much copious time on their hands to assault our candidates 24\/7 means something (follow the money).  At the very least it&#8217;s worth looking at this further and deciding if there is more we can each do as we enter what is bound to be a fast and furious road to the 2020 election. <br><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"719\" height=\"720\" src=\"http:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/EngageRage.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4945\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/EngageRage.jpg 719w, https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/EngageRage-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/EngageRage-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/EngageRage-50x50.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 719px) 100vw, 719px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am always appalled by the number of trolls I see on politician&#8217;s social media<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dharma"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4944"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4946,"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4944\/revisions\/4946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}