Here's the Clemson paper the article references: http://pwarren.people.clemson.edu/Linvill_Warren_TrollFactory.pdf http://pwarren.people.clemson.edu/Linvill_Wa

Here's the Clemson paper the article references: http://pwarren.people.clemson.edu/Linvill_Warren_TrollFactory.pdf http://pwarren.people.clemson.edu/Linvill_Warren_TrollFactor... Pay attention to this line from the abstract: > We identified five handle categories: right troll, left troll, news feed, hashtag gamer, and fearmonger Now try something interesting for yourself: get on Twitter, then look for any legitimate political news article from a mainstream publication or politician, and look at the responses. Look how quickly you will find what matches those "handle categories" identified in that paper. Look for the absurd statements. Look for the ready-made memes. Look for the ridiculous and incendiary hashtags. Look at the accounts engaging in it all, many of which mold to a generic formula and post 24/7/365 as if its automated or a full time job. Sometimes you can even do a reverse image search on the profiles to find they're stock photos or were pulled from some random biography page on the web and never matching up to the name used in the profile. It makes you wonder just how much social media activity is an organized campaign of nonsense or agitprop.