Thread by @leahmcelrath

HEADS UP:

There appears to be a new army of troll accounts deployed to harass and try to silence women speaking out against Trump and Kavanaugh.

Please do NOT engage them in my mentions.

(My recommendation is you block them immediately, as they are not who they claim to be.)

I have the “quality filter” on, which works okay (but also filters out real people) so do not tend to see these accounts except for when others engage with them and “reply all” in their responses.

However, some more sophisticated ones seems to be getting through the filter now.

You can recognize these trolls because their tone is attacking/mocking right out of the gate, and they’ll call you crazy and use terms like TDS (Trump Derangement Syndrome).

They also engage in sealioning if they successfully suck you into a “debate” (en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealioning).

This latest army of trolls/bots related to Kavanaugh is interesting because the accounts appear scripted/programmed to use a behavioral strategy employed by sexual offenders:

DARVO
=
Deny
Attack
Reverse
Victim and
Offender

(dynamic.uoregon.edu/jjf/defineDARV…)

In other words, some entity appears to have deployed troll/bot accounts to target and try to silence women speaking out against Kavanaugh, an alleged sexual predator, and those accounts appear specifically scripted/programmed to use the tactics of sexual predators.
#StopKavanaugh

For those asking how to use the “quality filter”:

>Go to your profile page
>Chose “Settings and privacy”
>Chose “Notifications”
>Touch or click on the toggle for “Quality filter” (when it’s green, it’s on)

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