with about a dozen other groups around the world. Camille had a strong background in public policy and technology (she had been special adviser to the chief technology officer of France) and gender studies, as well as human rights. Titled “Patriotic Trolling: The Rise of State-Sponsored Online Hate Mobs,” the resulting paper gave a big-picture view of patriotic trolling: “the use of targeted, State-sponsored online hate and harassment campaigns leveraged to silence and intimidate individuals.”53 It featured more than fifteen case studies in which governments, to varying degrees, were using
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