The Labour Party’s army of Facebook trolls is frantically searching for new ways to discredit this Saturday’s protest against overdevelopment.
The party’s elite trolls are currently meeting at Labour’s headquarters in Ħamrun to brainstorming fresh Facebook soundbites to delegitimise the ‘Iż-Żejjed Kollu Żejjed’ demonstration due to be held in Valletta this Saturday at 10am.
However, the group is struggling to think of new ideas.
“We could go with another round of ‘Fejn kontu meta…’ but they’re getting a bit stale now, you know? Even I’m getting bored of them,” said Troll Staff Sergeant Nicholas Fenech, 45, who poses as an attractive 25-year-old female activist on Facebook.
“How about we accuse them all of hypocrisy because their placards are made of cardboard?” suggested Troll Lance Corporal Benjamin Zammit, before it was pointed out to him they had already done that one for the ‘For Our Trees’ protest.
“It’d be so much easier if Graffitti hadn’t told Nationalist MPs to stay away. Why are they making our lives so difficult?” lamented Troll Lieutenant Angela Cassar, before suggesting she could maybe create a fake profile of Graffitti member Wayne Flask and message Simon Busuttil telling him he’s welcome after all and could they maybe go for a drink some time.
The group disagreed strongly with an idea presented by Troll Private First Class Lara Mangion, who suggested agent provocateurs could infiltrate the protest and cause damage to shops and cars.
“We’re elite online operatives, not field agents. And besides, that’s a bit much,” Fenech replied.
“OK, OK, maybe one of us could drop a chocolate wrapper on the ground to make it look like they’re littering?” Mangion offered.
At the time of writing, the troll army gave up and decided they would just spam the words ‘għira’, ‘mibegħda’, and ‘imdejqin’.
