Social media analysis
Covid-19 pandemic brings trolls out of their holes
The Covid-19 pandemic is allowing a time for introspection, and for appreciating how interdependent our world is. Sadly, it’s also bringing the trolls out of their holes ...
02 April 2020 - 05:00
Regular readers of this column will know that its subject matter is the words and actions of publicly exposed people, whether that means they’re exposed by virtue of the jobs they hold — politicians, business people or religious leaders, for example — or by dint of them foisting their opinions on us via social media platforms.
Its arena is the social, political and cultural landscape in which we find ourselves inextricably mired, and its aim is a simple one: to highlight some of its absurdities in a mildly amusing way, and to suggest some alternative ways to think about our world...
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