Sunday, April 24, 2011

Troll Spotted: Facebook war for GE 2011

While researching about facebook fanpages last night, I smelled something fishy going on in the comment box on some General election fanpages.

I chanced upon strange 'smear tactics' by these Pro-PAP individuals on facebook. Out to smear and create chaos for the Opposition. Cheap shot.


 Already picha lobang when you see their profile. Took a few screen shots with time stamp to show just in case it is hidden. (unless I am wrong, you ca

Tan Seng Guo - 38 friends are... almost all PAP MPs.


This is the wall activity of Tan Seng Guo and shows that Seng Guo probably started this account only on 13th March. 

Following the comments and activities he made online - shows that Tan Seng Guo posted an image of SDP party members. And comments - 'Am I the Only one that thinks that SDP 's candidates looks just like a bunch of uncles in the coffee shop, and they had too much beer?'. A cheap shot - what's wrong with uncles in coffeeshop? And drinking beer?  See below. 

 Tracking another work of Tan Seng Guo - making as much propaganda also, if you noticed the majority objected to Tan's views but Tan continues to make his presence felt. A search would find that Tan is mentioned+commented 34 times out of 247.

Another Troll Spotted: Linda Kuok, a homemaker and mother. 
 Looking at the wall, Linda Kuok account was created on 20th April 2011. And similarly like Tan, Linda has been working hard 'liking' pages, making comments and posting links. Note the 12 friends she got same as Tan Seng Guo. (see below)


Here is a link page on Straits Times about SDP's Holland-Bt Timah GRC team. Note that in this comments page, both Linda and Tan participates in a smear campaign towards Dr VJ being the first Gay MP. If you track the video and the description. It doesn't show Dr VJ and Ravi who is in the video does not promote legalizing sex with 14 years old boy at all!  The profile Johntan88888 who posted the video is posting in several video sites. This Johntan88888 is posting under the same account name and using the same description and has so far posted only this video. Therefore, making the reason to create all these accounts to with the sole purpose of a smear campaign against Dr VJ. 

as usual no one seems to care about Dr VJ sexuality but everyone else really wants to have a debate on the real merits and capability of PAP and SDP. Yet, Tan and Linda tries to push their smear campaign all the way through. (see below)




A social media war is being waged. It is quite pathetic to use these unnecessary smear campaigns. Have an open debate - that's what the public wants to hear and know. No more distractions please. 

18 comments:

Anonymous said...

simple. REPORT THEM ON FB! if enough ppl do that the accounts will be suspended!

Anonymous said...

Fake identities and sockpuppets are clearly against facebook policy.

Anonymous said...

c this..
Maju Sing also..
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002240847142&sk=friends&v=friends

Anonymous said...

It could be a smear against PAP as well. The post seems too amateurish. But who knows.

Anonymous said...

Maybe it's a smear tactic by YOU who are creating these accounts to SUPPORT the PAP so that YOU can CLAIM that THEY are using smear tactics whilst in actual fact YOU are actually the perpetrator! Who knows. The world is confusing these days hmm? (:

Anonymous said...

It's the internet, it can be anybody, from either side. Don't share this, we are just giving free publicity to this retardness.

Anonymous said...

PAP is F***ing desperate!!! They are so going down!

Anonymous said...

those "people" may also be created by the opposition to create some chaos and hope that some sharp-eye person can find it and but the blame on pap =D we never know huh HAHA!!

JC said...

Didn't PAP at one point say outright that they weren't against using sockpuppets to fight the "bias" against them online? Despicable nonetheless.

Anonymous said...

Don't report them in FaceBook, leave them alone for others to gawk at them. Who knows, it might even appear in the ST!! I am surprised, looks a little amateurish even for PAP.

Anonymous said...

you're either very bored or u created those just for something to post in hopes of getting on ST ?

becareful, might be another Pedra Branca....

Anonymous said...

troll...

Anonymous said...

thank you, awesome stuff, active citizenry at work, we need more singaporeans like you!!
keep it up, keep reporting such things and we'll spread it on fb.
Jacqui Ch on fb. add me if u wanna.
Trolls are pathetic.

Anonymous said...

Good post by Woon Tien Wei.
There's a high probability that Tan Seng Guo and Linda Kuok are pro-PAP trolls.
Why?. Each of them has a majority of PAP-MP-only friends.
You think the PAP MPs will anyhow add any Tom, Dick or Harry to their FB profiles? If I were a high ranking civil servant, I'd think twice about adding any anonymous person whom I didn't know to my personal FB profile.

Woon Tien Wei said...

Thanks. Let's pushed for the real issues at hand. A debate is needed and not a smear campaign is not going to work. It disgusted many of my friends to know that a smear campaign is being used again.

Actually some of you are right, I dont have time but i can't stand by and watch this happen and not do anything about it.

I don't want PAP to side track and distract to avoid the real issue at hand.

miss_nina said...

There is another one in FB "Rozieh Hassan" = Pro-PAP. Zero netiquette.

Anonymous said...

Maybe you need to check out a few other of these people. For e.g. Jammie Wong, Bryan Ti too. :)

Junda said...

Good finding.. wonder how you managed to find these trolls?

Does opposition employ same tactic?