Yes, PO had its army of trolls, but the PiS flew after the band

Politicians have been using trolls for a long time, but the Piebiak scandal shows how little we know about this activity.

Onet published material that shook public opinion. Emilia's story of how she managed a campaign against judges critical of PiS's actions with the deputy minister of justice Łukasz Piebiak spread all over the internet. It was because of her that the deputy minister of justice on leave resigned, although he claims that he has nothing to complain about. She should also provoke discussion of political trolls on the internet and how they can be controlled.

The embarrassing secret of politicians

I may be cynical, but it didn't surprise me that politicians hire professional haters. This is a phenomenon that we know and although we associate mainly with Russian trolls involved in the fight for the chair of the United States President or the Brexit campaign, our neighbors from the east do not have a monopoly on this type of social media campaigns. Western politicians also use troll farms. In 2015, the media reported about the employment of 50 professional haters by the PO to criticize PiS's actions and praise their own. Violent struggle in social media has long been a regular part of the landscape of online skirmishes.

Read also: Polish politicians buy professional haters. We checked how much these types of services cost - Spider's Web report

Just as you can buy comments on forms, pages and in social media praising your washing machine and denigrating all of your competition's washing machines, so you can pay to praise your politician and heal competition policy. The party, politician, statute, in this perspective are more products for sale like any other.

Thinking like this is a problem worth considering from the perspective of how this affects our democracy. However, we probably will not do it, probably not yet, because in the Piebiak affair there are many more aspects that show that the activity of the deputy minister goes beyond the usual whisper and its very questionable ethics.

Hired trolls are not the first, but PiS went a step further

From fragments of conversations between Emilia and Łukasz Piebiak published by Onet, the picture is not the most beautiful. Here is the Deputy Minister of Justice himself, a man who even Caesar's wife should look with admiration, conducts a campaign of slander against judges whom he considers his political enemies. He adds gossip, anonymity and slander to the arsenal without embarrassment. At his request, Emilia writes to the media and tries to interest them with suitably colored sensations. Sometimes she succeeds. The bait is caught by a TVP journalist from the Alarm program, which creates material about a judge using a woman she met on the Internet (in fact, the woman was legally convicted of fraud). On the wave of the document, Emilia is organizing the #muremZaPola action on the internet to shoot social media against the judge.

The woman also does other things far beyond the normal arsenal of an online troll - she sends anonymous e-mails and letters full of innuendo and allegations against the chairman of the association to judges from Iustitia. He receives addresses from the deputy minister - most trolls do not have such accesses.

Man is the weakest link in security

There was no data leakage, computers were not infected, no fishing rods were dropped, or WhatsApp or Facebook passwords were not broken. The talks between the deputy minister and Emilia leaked because the woman herself reported to journalists and provided them with records of conversations with the deputy minister. This confirms the good old principle that man is the weakest link in most security systems.

The deputy minister of justice did not want to comment on the case at first, arguing that he is on vacation and knows nothing about the scandal. It wasn't until late afternoon that he decided to resign. Łukasz Piebiak announces bringing a lawsuit against Onet editorial office for spreading slander.



Yes, PO had its army of trolls, but the PiS flew after the band

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