@scottjshapiro It builds on my obsession with the testimony from Microchip and Douglass Mackey in the latter's trial, two of the key players behind using trolling to get Trump elected in 2016. It was VERY professionalized.
"I wanted to infect everything:" The Curiously Expert Pathologies of FBI Informant, Microchip - emptywheel
I've now read the substantive transcripts in the trial of Douglass Mackey, the far right troll who was convicted last month of conspiring to violate the voting rights of Hillary voters in the 2016 election.As I noted in my first write-up of the verdict, the case has lessons that remain quite pressing, as loud boys on, who own, and claim to be interested in regulating Twitter attempt to make the site more welcoming to far right election disinformation.