Honesty in social media starts simply by using your real name, not as deceptive trolls.
In 2017 some abusive political harridans wrongly and intentionally branded me as a mentally ill person, a threat, a risk and a danger, all of which are false. The habitual psychologically, emotionally and verbally abusive people who repeatedly committed maligning, group digital bullying, those who repeatedly committed character assassinations, the pathological lies of opportunistic abusive political harridans, and those Machiavellian manipulators and unscrupulous political movers who gave me a threat, group cyberbullied and mob lynched me publicly and privately, those who committed forgery, identity theft, slander, and libel with their intentions to ruin my credibility and trustworthiness, they caused me my off and on chest pains, but that didn’t stop me from doing the right, ethical, and lawful manner in defying them, debunking their lies and putting a strong boundary from their habitual abuses.
I’m sharing with you how I managed since 2016 when I first saw the fake cloned sites of “BBC101 and The Guard1an,” and denounced those links and got group bullied by some Filipino expats in a Facebook group for having warned them how to detect fake news, disinformation, and fake sites.
Here are some of my suggestions on how you can fight disinformation, and defy cyber trolls and resist toxic netizens:
- Be a critical thinker. Have a growth mindset: empathic and with proper, deep understanding. Always verify first. Disarm the plethora of lies.
- Expose the liars and bust the lies. Alert your friends, readers and followers on social media.
- Do not show your emotions. Your transparent feelings are what feed and empower these manipulative and abusive netizens. Do not get engaged emotionally.
- Denounce the disinformation/fake news and the sower or pedlar of disinformation
- Submit the fake news link to honest investigative journalists or official fact-checkers or to other honest, reliable, truthful, factual, ethical investigative journalists who have a right moral compass.
- Check the creation date of the fake site or the domain name by checking at WhoIs.com. Denounce the fake or cloned mainstream media site by directly informing the official foreign or local media which was cloned by the malicious and destructive creator of the same site bearing phoney news, plagiarised news, disinformation, destructive lies. When you take screens shot of the cloned site carrying fake news and disinformation, be sure to include a screenshot of the complete HTML link of the source or creator of disinformation.
- If you are a victim of identity theft and someone cloned or made a social media account under your name, denounce and debunk that cloned account or fake identity immediately.
There are vindictive, manipulative people who can kidnap the truth, twist the facts, create staged fake group chats with cloned accounts and later expose in public through screenshots to frame up, to shame their target victims, to develop destructive calumny and polemics mongering, through their libel and slander aiming to destroy the credibility, reputation, trustworthiness, persona, and integrity of their target sacrificial lamb or victim.
As a reader, be a critical thinker, be wise to spot the lies of omission, lies of commission, and lies of influence of these destructive liars or smear campaign producers or black propagandists.
Block the toxic netizens and those offensive, destructive, intrusive, and abusive netizens who fabricate fake accounts either for financial scamming, politically motivated or those driven by vindictiveness, envy, jealousy showing hallmarks of a maladaptive narcissist, a destructive sociopath, a gaslighter, a Machiavellian manipulator, a con, a scammer, a coward, and a thief. - As you debunk the lies, respond with the truth, stick with the facts, avoid inflammatory, derogatory words as you uphold the truth.
Do not fabricate lies to frame up others or someone you hate, nor create planted intrigues, forgery or forged screenshots of private messages, polemics mongering, rumour mongering, libel, and slander, nor air the dirty laundry or destructive calumny that do not concern you nor the others and the situations at hand. - Do not be a coward blaming others for a scapegoat and targeting others as a sacrificial lamb.
- Don’t be silenced by digital cyberbullies or digital aggressors. When you do this, it would be best that you don’t deceive others by being another troll or beastly offensive, aggressive trolls engaged in memetic war. Do not be a part of any abusive and aggressive cyber group or those secret digital teams or habitually abusive political groups who mass report Facebook users, Facebook handlers, Facebook accounts, Facebook page links and Twitter accounts.
Inform yourself about the differences between freedom of speech and hate speech and respect others when expressing your freedom of speech. Be dignified and diplomatic. - Be honest to use your real name and, at the same time, protect your privacy settings in social media. Be truly sincere and honest, be brave to counteract any lies, any deceptions, any fake news, and disinformation, any other liar bloggers, dishonest abusive political movers, producers of smear campaigns or black propaganda, and sadistic, unscrupulous social media influencers as you stand firm with integrity against any Machiavellian manipulators.
- Uphold the truth, be truthful and factual as you campaign for justice, defend human rights violations, stop violence, stop abuse, and help end impunity. Do not deceive others with a farm of trolls or being a divisive political spy or manipulative stalker troll, inciter of hate, a political provocateur, or being a part of the destructively malicious Machiavellian manipulators behaving as trolls, or being aggressive, habitually offensive, abusive cyber warriors who are engaged in memetic war or cyber political war. Be aware that your hourly or daily defamatory negativity, calumny, libel, deceptions, and slander are toxic to the readers.
- Know the law on libel/slander, and follow the cyber law, the cyberbullying law in the place or country you live in. If you are cyberbullied or a victim of cyberstalking with threats to your life and your loved ones/family members and security are at risk, gather the proofs and denounce the abusive digital offenders or cyberstalkers who repeatedly committed group bullying, mob lynching, libel and slander to the cyber police of your country.
Are you living honestly with integrity, credibility to uphold the truth?
Be yourself: have honesty as the best policy, and that starts with using your real name on social media. It is not carelessness because you can tighten your privacy settings. In this way, at least you don’t add up to those fake names, fake aliases who play the unnecessary spy/stalker games, being offensive and abusive hate enabler engaged in memetic wars, and intrusive, strategical, political, sadistic, psychologically and emotionally abusive, Machiavellian cyberwar.
Do you want to fight the digital beasts of compulsive liars and the abusive pathological liars? You do not become a cyber beast like them, do not be verbally abusive, do not be emotionally and psychologically abusive, do not be toxic like them who turn the social media into vitriolic, destructive digital jungle warfare, thereby contributing to more divisiveness and polarisation.
Take the higher ground of upholding the truth by being consistent and firm, diplomatic, respectful, factual and truthful.
You can help:
Stop Fake News!
Stop Disinformation!
Stop Cyberbullying!
Stop Defamation!
Stop Post-Truth!
Debunk the lies!
Stop being a manipulator and a gas lighter! Stop Emotional Abuse!
Stop Psychological Abuse!
Stop Digital Aggression! Stop Cyber Stalking!
Stop Hate!
Stop Being a Toxic Netizen!
Do not be a seed of any destructive lies that lead to a karmic whirlwind or damaging backlash but instead create a mindful karmic harvest towards empathy, harmony, justice, peace, fruitful, lawful progress, ethical values, spiritual, social, and moral values intact.
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