Showing posts with label trolling. Show all posts
Showing posts with label trolling. Show all posts

Monday, February 13, 2017

Jennie Pierson — Trolling as a Marketing Strategy


As I was recently saying, the alt-right uses trolling as a strategy. Here's now it works to target thin markets. This strategy is not limited to the alt-right obviously.

For the alt-right, it has the added benefit of generating overreaction from opponents that weakens their positions and discredits them.

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Trolling as a Marketing Strategy
Jennie Pierson | AlterNet assistant managing editor and assistant publisher