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In this study, we interviewed 22 prominent hacktivists to learn their take onthe increased proliferation of misinformation on social media. We found thatnone of them welcomes the nefarious appropriation of trolling and memes for thepurpose of political (counter)argumentation and dissemination of propaganda.True to the original hacker ethos, misinformation is seen as a threat to thedemocratic vision of the Internet, and as such, it must be confronted on theface with tried hacktivists' methods like deplatforming the "misinformers" anddoxing or leaking data about their funding and recruitment. The majority of thehacktivists also recommended interventions for raising misinformation literacyin addition to targeted hacking campaigns. We discuss the implications of thesefindings relative to the emergent recasting of hacktivism in defense of aconstructive and factual social media discourse.

Fight Fire with Fire: Hacktivists' Take on Social Media Misinformation