How does trolling affect society?
Trolling affects society by making controversial statements or ads that cause conflict. This trolling affects basically everyone that uses the internet. It causes problems for businesses and social media platforms.
How do you protect yourself?
To protect yourself, you should ignore these people that are trying to make a controversial conversation with you. But also you should try and research things that don't seem right. You try and figure out what is true and what is false out of all the things you see online. To protect yourself you should try and research other stuff that confirms what you saw online.
How are you a possible target?
The intention of these people is to sway your opinion and change it some way. By using social media, which everyone uses now, they have access to now do it. So you should try and limit the amount of time that you're on social media or thoroughly research a topic. Most of the stuff that's on the internet is going to be false or made up and you have to be aware that most things aren't true.
