Jessikka Aro

Jessikka Aro in 2017

Jessikka Aro is a Finnish journalist working for Finland's public service broadcaster Yle. In September 2014 she began to investigate pro-Russian Internet trolls.[1] The series of articles led to her receiving Bonnier's Award for Journalism in March 2016.

Her investigation encountered a major backlash from the pro-Russian trolls.[2] She describes responses as including a phone call with the sound of a pistol firing in the other end, as well as a cell phone text message purporting to be from her father (who had died 20 years earlier).[3] Another particularly vocal critic was Johan Bäckman.[4]

She has also written articles about the role of Internet trolls in modern information warfare,[5] and is currently working on a book about the phenomenon. She has published an article in the journal of the centre-right European Peoples Party describing the "brutal" harassment that she attributes to Russian trolls, which includes the revelation by "fake sites" and "Twitter trolls" of her drug conviction.[5] During the summer of 2016, she raised more than 30,000 USD through the crowdfunding platform Indiegogo.[6]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Aro, Jessikka (November 9, 2015). "My Year as a Pro-Russia Troll Magnet". Yle.
  2. ↑ Higgins, Andrew (May 31, 2016). "Russia's 'Troll Army' Retaliates Against an Effort to Expose It". New York Times. p. A1.
  3. ↑ Miller, Nick (March 13, 2016). "Finnish journalist Jessikka Aro's inquiry into Russian trolls stirs up a hornet's nest". Sydney Morning Herald.
  4. ↑ "My Year as a Pro-Russia Troll Magnet: International Shaming Campaign and an SMS from Dead Father". Yle Kioski. 2015-11-09. Retrieved 2017-02-09.
  5. 1 2 Aro, Jessikka (June 2016). "The cyberspace war: propaganda and trolling as warfare tools". European View. 15 (1): 121–132. doi:10.1007/s12290-016-0395-5.
  6. ↑ "Vladimir Putin's Troll Empire - The Book!".
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.