1. Fact-checking popular troll influencers claims, doesn't really work.

For example, George Floyd did not "rob a pregnant woman".

The trolls know this. But proving it's untrue, doesn't help.

Or stop the claims being shared millions of times.

2. Maybe it's more strategic to ask why trolls still successfully flood social media with inaccurate claims.

Despite the debunking being widely available. https://www.snopes.com/news/2020/06/12/george-floyd-criminal-record/

3. Snopes' article on the issue went into detail on the issue of George Floyd's past.

And finds there is no evidence that he "robbed a pregnant woman", for example.

4. But maybe more importantly, the article discusses the reasons why trolls try and refocus attention on the victim's past.

Rather than the murder.

5. Snopes explains the creation of a "He had it coming" narrative.

The idea being to turn the victim into a caricature.

A caricature who no longer has any right to a trial, safety from state violence, or to breathe.

Rather than a fully fleshed out human being.

6. Search Twitter for "George Floyd Pregnant", to find thousands of people a day making the false claim that George Floyd robbed a pregnant woman, for example.

Along with many other partly false, or completely false, claims.

7. "What about X"

"What about Y"

"What about...."

8. False equivalences.

Absurd comparisons.

That have nothing to do with each other, other than to tickle emotions.

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11. Maybe it makes sense to ask why trolls post these false claims or what their strategy is.

Rather than only attempt to debunk them.

12. The most influential trolls know the claims are false.

Welcome to the @TrollZoo