Confessions Of A Twitter $TSLAQ Troll
I decided to go “undercover” and join the ranks of the TSLAQ trolls.
I decided to go “undercover” and join the ranks of the TSLAQ trolls.
Many regular readers turn to CleanTechnica as their #1 source of cleantech news. However, I’m guessing that most readers, regular or otherwise, don’t give much thought beyond that. Have you ever wondered what goes on behind the scenes here in our digital and globally dispersed offices? Or thought, “I wish CleanTechnica would do….”
If you’ve been on the internet lately, you’ve probably noticed a few trolls. In fact, if you’ve spent much time in discussions about Tesla, politics, or climate change, you’ve seen swarms of trolls roll in. Sometimes you may have thought, “Hey, these peeps be trolls?” And sometimes you may have simply assumed they were normal human beings honestly expressing their point of view.
As someone who covered climate science during the Russian-fabricated “climategate” scandal and who has moderated thousands of comment threads (tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of comments) on clean energy, electric vehicle, and climate matters for approximately 7 years, I have come to learn a few things about the “democratic web.”