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How Professional Russian Trolls Operate
New submitter SecState writes: Hundreds of full-time, well-paid trolls operate thousands of fake accounts to fill social media sites and comments threads with pro-Kremlin propaganda. A St. Petersburg blogger spent two months working 12-hour shifts in a "troll factory," targeting forums of Russian municipal websites. In an interview, he describes how he worked in teams with two other trolls to create false "debates" about Russian and international politics, with pro-Putin views always scoring the winning point. Of course, with the U.S. government invoking "state secrets" to dismiss a defamation case against the supposedly independent advocacy group United Against a Nuclear Iran, Americans also need to be asking how far is too far when it comes to masked government propaganda.
He promised he would increase Russian economy by 80 percent, so far he's only managed increase by 66 percent.
Which country is paying you to say that?
Got them moderator blues I blieve I walk out the do', With these mod-points I been gettin', I 'most never post no mo'
I've been paid to make statements about how man-man carbon dioxide emissions make the climate hotter and storms more violent.
Sorry for expressing my opinion then you fucking asshole, I guess the community here has become so bitter this is what Slashdot comments simply are now. A bunch of shitposters and crybaby perfectionists like yourself. Fuck you
I accept your apology. Have a nice day!
Yeah, all the shills here are unpaid interns.
Got them moderator blues I blieve I walk out the do', With these mod-points I been gettin', I 'most never post no mo'
In this case, wouldn't that be cosmoturfing?
Life is not for the lazy.
Oh no, the USA would *never* do anything like that. To flood forums with US propaganda? The US are *so* above that. Evil Russians indeed are the only people evil enough to do that and evil enough to spy on their own people and evil enough to wage war on other countries to increase their hegemony over the rest of the world and evil enough to export their debts to the rest of the world through confiscatory taxation through inflation by holding the world's reserve currency. Only Russia would do that.