I want to help them with their research, so chapos of the "post hog" and pigpoopballs poster variety, what are your thoughts on counter trolling the fash and the terf? What techniques do you use to identify the foe when they try insidious entry into a community (e.g. how norse mythos got stolen by nazis but witch aesthetic is repelling them)? What level of engagement do you use? Do you know of any other academic writing on the topic?
On social media sites the algorithm typically rewards interaction. So as much as one may want to fight back by "debating" or counter trolling, you're typically only going to give their opinions more views to naïve minds. On such sites, the go to move is typically to use a bunch of accounts or get a group together to do report brigading and/or downmodding/downvoting while positively interacting with the content/comments that fit the narrative you want to popularize. The bonus is that these fucks hate being ignored and they'll typically become more unhinged.