How China Unleashed Twitter Trolls to Discredit Hong Kong’s Protesters

Am starting to feel this trolling is an industry (like troll farm) of its own - there are people or bots dedicated to trolling and reporting people who raise voice against the discrimination.. I recently had to report an unfair service by virgin atlantic staff after an emergency landing - I tweeted the pictures and video of the incident.. I was immediately trolled by twitter accounts about how i should be happy that I am alive - I was complaining about how the staff handled the issues after the emergency landing .. wish the social media companies could raise voice against companies or countries that use their platform to discredit real concern - guess people do not matter anymore

Re: How China Unleashed Twitter Trolls to Discredit Hong Kong’s Protesters

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Post by josefresco » Wed, Sep 18, 2019, 5:10 PM UTC

A lot more data here, which was referenced in the article: https://medium.com/digintel/welcome-to-the-party-a-data-anal...

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Post by president » Wed, Sep 18, 2019, 5:37 PM UTC

There needs to be some sort of internet sanction where the offending country's internet access to the world is cut off until they start acting like good global citizens.

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Post by windsurfer » Wed, Sep 18, 2019, 5:43 PM UTC

machbio wrote: post #5

Am starting to feel this trolling is an industry (like troll farm) of its own - there are people or bots dedicated to trolling and reporting people who raise voice against the discrimination.. I recently had to report an unfair service by virgin atlantic staff after an emergency landing - I tweeted the pictures and video of the incident.. I was immediately trolled by twitter accounts about how i should be happy that…

For those looking for context: https://twitter.com/machbio/status/1146954308086317056

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Post by hujun » Wed, Sep 18, 2019, 5:44 PM UTC

most time, and most people always believe what they want to believe

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Post by hktruth » Wed, Sep 18, 2019, 5:45 PM UTC

Why would anyone trust the NYTimes which has just discredited itself over the weekend with its latest (botched) hatchet job on Supreme Court Justice Kavanaugh?

There are genuine voices out there who disagree with the protestors political aims and who completely reject the violence employed by a radical minority of the protestors. Not everyone is a "wumao" or "5 cent" paid troll or bot.

It would be nice if there were more critical analysis of the Hong Kong protests. For example, why do prominent faces of the movement such as Joshua Wong frequently use the phrase "God Bless Hong Kong" for Western media interviews (and in a congressional hearing yesterday)? It's a phrase completely alien to Hong Kong and Chinese culture and clearly pandering to a target audience.