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Professional Internet Troll Sues Her Former Employer

Posted by Soulskill on from the guessing-there's-no-health-care-with-that-job dept.

baegucb sends a followup to the news from March that professional internet trolls were operating by the hundreds at factories in Russia. A woman hired to be one of these trolls, Lyudmila Savchuk, spoke to the media about her job, which led to her being fired. She's now suing her former employer and providing further details about how they operate. "The 'troll factory' operates based on very weird schemes, but all those firms are connected to each other, even though they are separate legal entities," she said. "I knew it was something bad, but of course I never suspected that it was this horrible and this large-scale." She describes how they flooded comment sections with pro-Putin responses, pushed out over 100 blog posts each shift, and doctored images to suit their employers' needs. Savchuk is now gathering activists to oppose this form of internet propaganda.

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  1. LOL ... by gstoddart · · Score: 5, Funny

    In Soviet Russia, internet trolls you

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  2. Troll v Troll by meta-monkey · · Score: 5, Funny

    I kind of have this idea that the comments section on CNN.com or foxnews.com is all troll bots. Right wing troll bots arguing with left wing troll bots arguing with agent provocateur right wing troll bots pretending to be deranged left wingers arguing with agent provocateur left wing troll bots pretending to be deranged right wingers.

    Basically, the internet is trolls all the way down.

    The alternative, that those are real people expressing their actual opinions, is too horrifying to contemplate.

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    1. Re:Troll v Troll by codemachine · · Score: 4, Funny

      Except here, where the rule is "Don't Read The Article".

    2. Re:Troll v Troll by BlackHawk-666 · · Score: 1, Funny

      Stop going to church and you'll run into a lot less of these whackjobs.

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  3. How do you feel about the internet is trolls? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    That's why I only read Slashdot. I have it on good authority that we're all nothing but modified chatbots and Markov text generators.

  4. Re:Very Orwellian by mujadaddy · · Score: 3, Funny

    what term do we use for 'dystopian'?

    "News for Nerds, Stuff That Matters" ?

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  5. Re:Pfff amature by MillionthMonkey · · Score: 3, Funny

    You misspelled "armature".

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