Submitted by christian on Sun, 02/20/2022 - 18:01
Trolling defined as ‘to antagonize (others) online by deliberately posting inflammatory, irrelevant, or offensive comments or other disruptive content’ has gone viral in the real world. In geopolitics, troll power is increasingly augmenting the two traditional forms of power, hard and soft power.
Troll power is a form of negative soft power, one that imports the slashing mockery and grandstanding rhetorical gamesmanship seen in Twitter feuds into interactions between states and world leaders.
