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Posting rude, provocative, or disruptive content on social media platforms with the intention of causing confusion, rage, or controversy is known as social media trolling
Don’t react to abusive comments because that just makes things worse and shows that you’re irritated.If you don’t agree with their comments, don’t respond Block troll’s accounts. Avoid posting on the internet that you are being trolled.
Although not a new phenomena, internet trolling has significantly increased in recent years. Paid trolling is the organised propagation of “disinformation” online, a subset of misinformation that is purposefully false and misleading. It offers quick and cheap ways for governments, political groups, and tech companies to discredit their opponents.
Cybertrollers target anyone, everyone including politicians, celebrities, businesses, and individuals. Trolls aren’t selective. If you’re online, a troll can easily target you.
Amnesty International provide some important steps how to protect you from cyber trolling: Threats of violence, discrimination, harassment, doxxing (disclosing personal or identifying documents), and the unauthorised sharing of sexually explicit and private images are just a few examples of the various ways that abuse can be committed online.