The article explores the role of hacktivism in combating misinformation on social media platforms. It emphasizes the emerging tactics employed by hacktivists, such as doxing and leaks, to counteract politically motivated misinformation. The authors highlight examples from the IT Army, which successfully leaked data in response to disinformation narratives. The implications for content moderation and user participation on social media are profound, suggesting a need for more structured responses from platforms and increased engagement from users in addressing misinformation.
The hacktivists' resoluteness to go after the misinformers would certainly have implications for the content/user moderation on social media, user participation, and future of Internet activism overall.
The new brand of misinformation... draws the ire of the hacktivists, reprehending the hijacked discourse for political and propagandistic purposes.
The fight-fire-with-fire response... though individually employed by some participants, is yet to be orchestrated and tested against serious disinformation outfits.
Early evidence outside of the US shows that this orchestration works as the IT Army leaked data from Russian organizations in response to the troll farms' disinformation narrative.
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