10-6-2021 - Tom being interviewed by the Associated Press about Kiwi Farms and online harassment - Tom's gonna tell his story

[Space Cooter]

Imagine how hopeless your career is as a journalist if you're actually interviewing Tom. Unless his angle is to mock Tom in front of a wider Audience he should find a new vocation because journalism ain't working out

 

[Grub]

Read Jonathan Swift's: A Modest Proposal for preventing the children of Poor People From being a Burden to Their Parents or Country, and For making them Beneficial to the Public.

Ironic, selfaware trolling had existed since the printing press. Fuck Tom all the same, I'm sure he never read it.

We ain't talking ironic self aware trolling here nigga, we talkin' troll gangs muhfucka. Real nigga trollin'.

 

[Daisymae]

If you are curious about this guy's approach to "trolls", he seems pretty even keel.

https://apnews.com/article/us-news-...echnology-4086949d878336f8ea6daa4dee725d94NEW YORK (AP) — Cyborgs, trolls and bots can fill the internet with lies and half-truths. Understanding them is key to learning how misinformation spreads online.

As the 2016 election showed, social media is increasingly used to amplify false claims and divide Americans over hot-button issues including race and immigration. Researchers who study misinformation predict it will get worse leading up to this year’s presidential vote. Here’s a guide to understanding the problem:


MISINFORMATION VS. DISINFORMATION

Political misinformation has been around since before the printing press, but the internet has allowed falsehoods, conspiracy theories and exaggerations to spread faster and farther than ever.


Misinformation is defined as any false information, regardless of intent, including honest mistakes or misunderstandings of the facts. Disinformation, on the other hand, typically refers to misinformation created and spread intentionally as a way to confuse or mislead.

Misinformation and disinformation can appear in political ads or social media posts. They can include fake news stories or doctored videos. One egregious example of disinformation from last year was a video of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi that was slowed down to make her sound as if she were slurring her words.

Research indicates that false claims spread more easily than accurate ones, possibly because they are crafted to grab attention.

Full Coverage: AP Fact Check
Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology analyzed more than 126,000 stories, some true and some false, that were tweeted millions of times from 2006 through the end of 2016. They found that misleading or incorrect stories traveled six times faster — and reached more people.

Online misinformation has been blamed for deepening America’s political polarization and contributing to distrust in government. The risks were highlighted in 2016 when Russian trolls created fake accounts to spread and amplify social media posts about controversial issues.


WAR OF THE BOTS AND CYBORGS

The disposable foot soldiers in this digital conflict are bots. In the social media context, these autonomous programs can run accounts to spread content without human involvement.

Many are harmless, tweeting out random poems or pet photos. But others are up to no good and designed to resemble actual users.


One study by researchers at the University of Southern California analyzed election-related tweets sent in September and October 2016 and found that 1 in 5 were sent by a bot. The Pew Research Center concluded in a 2018 study that accounts suspected of being bots are responsible for as many as two-thirds of all tweets that link to popular websites.

While flesh-and-blood Twitter users will often post a few times a day, about a variety of subjects, the most obvious bots will tweet hundreds of times a day, day and night, and often only on a specific topic. They are more likely to repost content rather than create something original.

And then there’s the cyborg, a kind of hybrid account that combines a bot’s tirelessness with human subtlety. Cyborg accounts are those in which a human periodically takes over a bot account to respond to other users and to post original content. They are more expensive and time consuming to operate, but they don’t give themselves away as robots.

“You can get a lot from a bot, but maybe it’s not the best quality,” said Emilio Ferrara, a data science researcher at the University of Southern California who co-wrote the study on Twitter bots. “The problem with cyborgs is they are much harder to catch and detect.”


SPOT THE BOTS

Bots can be hard to spot, even for the best researchers.

“We have 12 ways that we spot a bot, and if we hit seven or eight of them we have pretty high confidence,” said Graham Brookie, director of the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab, a Washington, D.C.-based organization that studies connections between social media, cybersecurity and government.

Nonetheless, Brookie recalled the case of a Twitter account from Brazil that was posting almost constantly — sometimes once per minute — and displayed other bot-like characteristics. And yet, “It was a little grandma, who said, ‘This is me!’”

Their prevalence and the difficulty of identifying them has made bots into a kind of digital bogeyman and transformed the term into an insult, used to dismiss other social media users with different opinions.

Michael Watsey, a 43-year-old New Jersey man who often tweets his support for President Donald Trump, said he has been repeatedly called a Russian bot by people he argues with online. The accusations prompted Twitter to temporarily suspend his account more than once, forcing him to verify he is a human.

“All I’m trying to do is uses my First Amendment right to free speech,” he said. “It’s crazy that it’s come to this.”

TROLLS AND SOCK PUPPETS

The word troll once referred to beasts of Scandinavian mythology who hid under bridges and attacked travelers. Now it also refers to people who post online to provoke others, sometimes for their own amusement and sometimes as part of a coordinated campaign.

Sock puppets are another oddly named denizen of social media, in this case a type of imposter account. While some users may use anonymous accounts simply to avoid identifying themselves, sock-puppet accounts are used by the owner to attack their critics or praise themselves. In October, Utah Sen. Mitt Romney acknowledged operating a secret Twitter account under the name “Pierre Delecto,” which he used to defend himself against criticism.


FAKED VIDEOS: DEEP, CHEAP AND SHALLOW

Deepfakes are videos that have been digitally created with artificial intelligence or machine learning to make it appear something happened that did not. They are seen as an emerging threat, as improvements in video editing software make it possible for tricksters to create increasingly realistic footage of, say, former President Barack Obama delivering a speech he never made, in a setting he never visited. They are expensive and difficult to create — especially in a convincing way.

Facebook announced last month that it would ban deepfake videos — with exceptions for satire. Beginning in March, Twitter will prohibit doctored videos, photography and audio recordings “likely to cause harm.” Material that is manipulated but isn’t necessarily harmful may get a warning label. And YouTube bans “deceptive uses of manipulated media” that could pose serious risk of harm.

By contrast, shallowfakes, cheapfakes or dumbfakes are videos that have been doctored using more basic techniques, such as slowing down or speeding up footage or cutting it.

Examples include a doctored video posted by Britain’s Conservative Party before December’s U.K. election that made it seem like a Labour Party official was struggling to respond to a question about Brexit.

Because they’re easy and inexpensive to make, cheapfakes can be every bit as dangerous as their fancier cousin, the deepfake.

“Deepfakes are getting more realistic and easier to do,” said John Pavlik, a journalism professor at Rutgers University who studies how technology and the internet are changing communication habits. “But you don’t have to have special software to make these simpler ones.”

Researchers who study Americans’ changing media habits recommend that people turn to a variety of sources and perspectives for their news, use critical thinking when evaluating information on social media, and think twice about reposting viral claims. Otherwise, they say, misinformation will continue to flow, and users will continue to spread it.

“The only solution,” Ferrara said, “is education.”

 

[BlueArmedDevil]

Imagine how hopeless your career is as a journalist if you're actually interviewing Tom. Unless his angle is to mock Tom in front of a wider Audience he should find a new vocation because journalism ain't working out

Provided Tom doesn't sink the interview by going off the deep end he's probably at best going to get a paragraph or at least a few lines. It sounds like this guy is interviewing a few people given his questions.

 

[RadioactiveMonkeyMan]

We ain't talking ironic self aware trolling here nigga, we talkin' troll gangs muhfucka. Real nigga trollin'.

Always wanted to be part of a gang. Tommie-Chan, come out to play-eeee-ayyy!

 

[Miss Tommie Jayne Wasserberg]

If you're less than 15 years old, I will exploit you!

I do this for two reasons: one is that i think i can get people to hate people i don't like. two, i want my angry adult autistic asshole "trolls" to harass the people i hate for me so i can get my rocks off laughing.

I'm so slick

ftfy , faggot failed abortion.

I haven't been 22 for over a decade. Still not as old as your old craggly used up faggot pedo ass though.

but much more gullible for believing the nonsense you believe about me and still only with the emotional maturity of an 8 year old schoolyard bully. Self sufficient or still living at home, maggot?

LOL, that's literally projection, Tom. You think that just because some hack of a journo shows interest in your skidmarks, that you're actually important. News Flash: You're a rapist, dog fucker, and drug addict. No one can actually stand you. You're a fat arrogant gay man who only got his dick wet in a dog, your sister, and a teenage girl. You're disgusting.



You inject heroin and you lost all your teeth to meth. Years of drug abuse have robbed you of any potential executive functioning you once had. You're a disgusting pile of mush, who will die surrounded by nursing aids who hate him.

like i said, pig woman. nothing highlighted that you have declared is true. If you were American, you would be easy to nail for incitement and defamation. as it is, pray nobody ever doxes you , because i can and will destroy your entire life along with your fucking greaseball husband if they do, from here. You are a classic DKE victim; preposterously inflating your competence, while underestimating mine. Keep hammering that keyboard with this delusional deviance , my bitch. History will not be kind to you. This is getting read to the AP reporter in the morning, so take your best shot now, pendejo puta (or is it puta pendejo? i never get spanish syntax right).

How about posting a nice compilation of all the fakes you've made or posted about me, @Daisymae

Read Jonathan Swift's: A Modest Proposal for preventing the children of Poor People From being a Burden to Their Parents or Country, and For making them Beneficial to the Public.

Ironic, selfaware trolling had existed since the printing press. Fuck Tom all the same, I'm sure he never read it.

it was required reading in about the 4th grade, fucktard. You'd also look real funny trying to fuck me, faggot.

 

[Mariposa Electrique]

pray nobody ever doxes you , because i can and will destroy your entire life along with your fucking greaseball husband if they do, from here

ftfy , faggot failed abortion.

Just wait until your hack of journo finds out that you're both homophobic and racist. LOL, your impotent rage is nothing but deeply unsatisfied life and the realization that you could never be me, Tom. I don't dive in dumpsters. I don't suck hobo cock. I don't lust after and fuck children. I don't fuck animals. I don't use illicit drugs like heroin and crystal meth, and I don't eat my boogers like you have on video. You're a racist, misogynistic, homophobic cocksucker Tom. You will never be a woman, you'll never be Intersexed. You'll always be God's best joke along with Chris chan.

 

[RadioactiveMonkeyMan]

ftfy , faggot failed abortion.

but much more gullible for believing the nonsense you believe about me and still only with the emotional maturity of an 8 year old schoolyard bully. Self sufficient or still living at home, maggot?

like i said, pig woman. nothing highlighted that you have declared is true. If you were American, you would be easy to nail for incitement and defamation. as it is, pray nobody ever doxes you , because i can and will destroy your entire life along with your fucking greaseball husband if they do, from here. You are a classic DKE victim; preposterously inflating your competence, while underestimating mine. Keep hammering that keyboard with this delusional deviance , my bitch. History will not be kind to you. This is getting read to the AP reporter in the morning, so take your best shot now, pendejo puta (or is it puta pendejo? i never get spanish syntax right).

How about posting a nice compilation of all the fakes you've made or posted about me, @Daisymae

It was required reading in about the 4th grade, fucktard. You'd also look real funny trying to fuck me, faggot

You know, you shouldn't post such drivel with a journalist at your case. But hey, what do I know? I'm no 60+ years old chomo dogrubber so I'm clearly too dumb to understand the situation.

Good to know implying you're an illiterate idiot hits your nerves. I'll keep that in mind.

 

[Mariposa Electrique]

it was required reading in about the 4th grade, fucktard. You'd also look real funny trying to fuck me, faggot.

They should have required you to read about hygeine and not sucking hobo cock, Tom. You could do destroy my life, Tom. Even if I was somehow doxxed, all you would do is shit yourself and be jealous because I'm actually a woman.

 

[Grub]

ftfy , faggot failed abortion.

but much more gullible for believing the nonsense you believe about me and still only with the emotional maturity of an 8 year old schoolyard bully. Self sufficient or still living at home, maggot?

like i said, pig woman. nothing highlighted that you have declared is true. If you were American, you would be easy to nail for incitement and defamation. as it is, pray nobody ever doxes you , because i can and will destroy your entire life along with your fucking greaseball husband if they do, from here. You are a classic DKE victim; preposterously inflating your competence, while underestimating mine. Keep hammering that keyboard with this delusional deviance , my bitch. History will not be kind to you. This is getting read to the AP reporter in the morning, so take your best shot now, pendejo puta (or is it puta pendejo? i never get spanish syntax right).

How about posting a nice compilation of all the fakes you've made or posted about me, @Daisymae

I believe you're a faggot pedo. It's not some schoolyard bully shit. I hope you eat shit and die a slow painful death alone and suffering fucking junkie pedo trash.

Self sufficient since before I was 22. Unlike you, who still can't live like a normal human being and never will. You will always just be a failed human until the day you draw your last breath. Your board on kiwifarms is all you'll be remembered for.

 

[totallyrandomusername]

I have been studying troll gangs since before your scum bag sperm donor fucked your skanky assed mom.

Study? Ha! I doubt Old Tom ever graduated elementary school, let alone high school. Old Tom has no idea what a "study" actually is. The only "study" Old Tom has done is how to trap stray dogs so he can rape them.

 

[Space Cooter]

ftfy , faggot failed abortion.

but much more gullible for believing the nonsense you believe about me and still only with the emotional maturity of an 8 year old schoolyard bully. Self sufficient or still living at home, maggot?

like i said, pig woman. nothing highlighted that you have declared is true. If you were American, you would be easy to nail for incitement and defamation. as it is, pray nobody ever doxes you , because i can and will destroy your entire life along with your fucking greaseball husband if they do, from here. You are a classic DKE victim; preposterously inflating your competence, while underestimating mine. Keep hammering that keyboard with this delusional deviance , my bitch. History will not be kind to you. This is getting read to the AP reporter in the morning, so take your best shot now, pendejo puta (or is it puta pendejo? i never get spanish syntax right).

How about posting a nice compilation of all the fakes you've made or posted about me, @Daisymae

If you had her dox what would you do?

Let's say her name is Ximena Perraputa Garcia and she lives in Valencia. She works at the universidad de Enrique iglesias medical research center. What would you do first?

 

[Daisymae]

Study? Ha! I doubt Old Tom ever graduated elementary school, let alone high school. Old Tom has no idea what a "study" actually is. The only "study" Old Tom has done is how to trap stray dogs so he can rape them.

He graduated high school with a 0.3 GPA IIRC, and barely got through college. He has a bachelor's degree in Marine Science - Biology from a shitty little school named the University of Tampa. He was in a "fraternity" there, but I use quotes because it was the music frat. @Gone Ham would be interested to know that Tom's frat brothers named him "McMurray Revisited" after the character Jack Nicholson played in one flew over the cuckoos nest. Tom has always been insane and he graduated high school late because he spent several months in the nuthouse because of violence against his dad, Gene.

 

[BlueArmedDevil]

Tom's acting pretty smug for a guy about to embarrassingly expose the degree of his mental illness to a reporter.

 

[Thomas Highway]

Tom's acting pretty smug for a guy about to embarrassingly expose the degree of his mental illness to a reporter.

I don't think Tom is psychologically capable of feeling shame. He is broken.

 

[Mariposa Electrique]

He graduated high school with a 0.3 GPA IIRC, and barely got through college. He has a bachelor's degree in Marine Science - Biology from a shitty little school named the University of Tampa. He was in a "fraternity" there, but I use quotes because it was the music frat. @Gone Ham would be interested to know that Tom's frat brothers named him "McMurray Revisited" after the character Jack Nicholson played in one flew over the cuckoos nest. Tom has always been insane and he graduated high school late because he spent several months in the nuthouse because of violence against his dad, Gene.

Most bio degrees are entry level bs that only serve to get your foot in the door to get a master's and teach. It seems as if Tom was fast tracked on the Christine Weston Chandler education program for the retarded and mentally insane where they just and you a diploma because they don't want to deal with you anymore. I bet Tom was pissed because nobody wanted to touch cocks with him in his frat.

 

[Daisymae]

Most bio degrees are entry level bs that only serve to get your foot in the door to get a master's and teach. It seems as if Tom was fast tracked on the Christine Weston Chandler education program for the retarded and mentally insane where they just and you a diploma because they don't want to deal with you anymore. I bet Tom was pissed because nobody wanted to touch cocks with him in his frat.

His dad paid for much of his education, if not all of it. Tom did come home in the summer and work, but its doubtful any money saved went toward tuition. He also has tried to indicate in the past that his admission into UT was based on his dad pulling strings. If your parents have to pull strings to get you into the University of Tampa, you're one braindead mother fucker.

 

[Positron]

because i can and will destroy your entire life along with your fucking greaseball husband if [someone doxes you], from here.

This is what I'd call "love and peace". Chill granpa.

 

[Mariposa Electrique]

This is what I'd call "love and peace". Chill granpa.

It's Tranpa, bigot!

 

[RadioactiveMonkeyMan]

His dad paid for much of his education, if not all of it. Tom did come home in the summer and work, but its doubtful any money saved went toward tuition. He also has tried to indicate in the past that his admission into UT was based on his dad pulling strings. If your parents have to pull strings to get you into the University of Tampa, you're one braindead mother fucker.

Especially in regards to Bio. It's probably the simplest science short of Geo. I mean basic level is what... cytosine, guanine, adesine and thymine? Include Uracil but I doubt he got as far as RNA Transcription and its role in protein synthesis along with the ribosome. After all, facebook points lie in "The mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell"