Who are Russian Media Trolls? A Russian Media Troll is
someone who joins a conversation on a social media account,for instance, twitter,
and begins posting controversial comments that can affect society and
possibly be considered offensive. This is all done to create disharmony
and to make people believe something different and not true. Therefore, it promotes
disagreement, and poor feeling between people.
How does it affect society? It may cause people to believe
things that are untrue and if they start spreading fake news then it will create something unreal.
It conflicts and causes malfunction that may lead to arguable topics.
Hacking is illegal no doubt, but it can affect society because it is aiming for
the younger generation. Also hackers can use account or personal data information
to their advantage. Hacking also causes great loss to the government due to cybercrime.
How to protect yourself from being influenced? You shouldn't
believe everything you see online and be vary of clickbait headlines.
We should also use reliable and trustworhty sources for gathering information.
Another way we can prevent hackers is to always have a password on all of our electronic devices that
are difficult to solve. Also before selling a device we should remove all personal
data from our hardware. We should always be cautious of our surroundings and try not to get
into a bad situation like hackers hacking your private information.
How are you a possible target? We can be a easy possible target if we
aren't secure enough with our passwords.Another thing is to pay attention to the urls of the website.
You never know what can happen so you should always stay up to date on the software updates and be
consious of the info you are already giving away without realizing it on the wrong webpage.
The main thing hackers do is get through your password so we should ensure that our passwords
have numbers or capitalized letters in them to make them distinct.
Sources
Ways to Protect Against Hackers
Hacking Impacts on Society
How Are You an Easy Target?
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