 The authors, Ahmed and Papadopoulos, acknowledged the assistance of the following individuals as having "provided valuable insight or feedback in the writing of this report"; Morgan McSweeney, Siobhan McAndrew, Rachel Riley, Dave Rich (of the Community Security Trust), Dr. Daniel Allington (of King's College London,  Simon Clark (of the "Center for American Progress"), Euan Neill (of the Commission for Countering Extremism), Randeep Ramesh (of The Guardian), Hannah O'Rourke (of Labour Together), Will Somerville (of the Migration Policy Institute, a Washington DC-based pro-immigration lobby group), Dr. Kate Ferguson (of Protection Approaches, an NGO which focuses on "identity-based violence and mass atrocity crimes"), Dr. Robert Ford (of the University of Manchester) and Jonathan Sebire (of Signify).The central thesis of the ""Don't Feed the Trolls"" pamphlet is that what the CCDH describes as internet trolls operate through manipulating social media algorithms and if a tweet or Facebook post receives engagement (whether positive or negative) then it is seen by a wider audience, particularly if the feedback is from a high profile account.The pamphlet advises those who are on the receiving end of the messages not to respond, block the user, do not hightlight being targeted and take time off social media.