“I Will Always Fall for Trolls”

Remember my mantra: the moment we feel superiorly immune to falling for the troll, we’re at our most vulnerable. Pride Comes Before a Fall became a linguistic meme for a reason! Disinfolklorists play on our over-confidence in our immunity to Disinfolklore. They draw us into a conspiracy of community, so that we’re inside the in-group watching others’ fall for the troll…

Source: How I Fell for the Troll

This is really important. We’re all susceptible to this. I’m susceptible! I fall for trolls the whole time. When I do fall for trolls, I then try to work out what happened: How did it happen? How did it trigger my emotions? How did it overcome my capacity to engage what I call my Incoming Troll Radar to protect me. Overcome my defenses — how did that meme sneak into my rational thought stream? How did it trigger my fear such that I didn’t think it through? So that before I knew it, I was sharing that meme or something. Broadcasting. My intention hadn’t been to promote Russian Disinfolklore, MAGA Disinfolklore, but I ended up telling their story.

Source: How Disinfolklore Communicates Archetypes

No one is immune. The inventor of the method falls for trolls. The purpose of Tool 2 is not invulnerability but recovery speed — how quickly you notice that your Incoming Troll Radar was breached, how quickly you retrace what happened, and how you update your radar’s sensitivity for next time.

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