Trolls attack based on trigger words without reading the content

Evidence

The main person responsible for the skeptical GWUP blog, journalist Bernd Harder, reports comments on a blog article recommending a podcast about nuclear energy. One commenter accused the blog of, “once again advertising atom power.” The commenter had obviously not been interested in the recommended podcast at all – otherwise he would have noticed that, despite the relatively neutral announcement, it was critical of nuclear energy. — Holm Gero Hümmler, Ulrike Schiesser, Fact and Prejudice, 302

Categorization

• CANDY: Perfect short anecdote for a dinner-party chat about online discourse: a ‘nuclear energy’ keyword trigger set off a commenter who never listened.
• XREF: connects to: Targeted advertising systems automatically generated antisemitic ad categories — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1617; Ignoring a false attack let it define the message — Lee McIntyre, Post-Truth, 314