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Professional Russian Trolling Exposed

Posted by timothy on from the in-ex-soviet-russia dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Today the New York Times published a stunning exposé revealing the strategies used by one of the Web's greatest enemies: professional, government-backed "internet trolls." These well-paid agent provocateurs are dedicated to destroying the value of the Internet as an organizing and political tool. The trolling attacks described within are mind-boggling -- they sound like the basis of a Neal Stephenson novel as much as they do real life -- but they all rely on the usual, inevitable suspects of imperfect security and human credulity.

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  1. In Soviet Russia by clam666 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Internet Trolls You!

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    I'm a satanic clam.
  2. Re:par for the course by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Holy crap, that guy. Cold fjord shows up to every Snowden/Manning/Wikileaks story like an unwanted sex offender to a family Christmas dinner.

  3. Nyet by puddingebola · · Score: 5, Funny

    Nyet, everything excellent in Russia, all American disasters real and American. Giant plume kill 1200 people in Louisiana city of New Orleans. Work of imperialists. American CIA responsible, deaths cover up. Real! Contact me at agent0@kremlin.gov for more big news.

  4. Re:You're Talking About a Different Scale by Impy+the+Impiuos+Imp · · Score: 5, Funny

    > Astroturfing

    Cosmoturfing

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    (-1: Post disagrees with my already-settled worldview) is not a valid mod option.