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Professional Russian Trolling Exposed

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. If you think America DOESNT do this, guess again by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    You're hopelessly naive if you think the US government doesn't employ something similar.