Former Russian Troll Wins Lawsuit Against Propaganda "Factory"

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday August 19, 2015 @11:33PM from the part-of-the-machine dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Lyudmila Savchuk, a former Russian internet "troll" has been awarded one rouble ($0.01) in damages after she sued her ex-employer claiming it was a propaganda "factory". A Russian court ordered the secretive agency to pay her symbolic damages. Savchuk claims that she and her co-workers at Internet Research were paid to flood websites with pro-Putin commentary. The BBC reports: "Ms Savchuk said she was happy with the result because she had succeeded in exposing the work of Russia's internet 'trolls'. Russian media quoted a spokesman for Internet Research denying the accusations. The Kremlin says it has no links to Internet Research's operations. Since leaving the agency, Ms Savchuk has been organizing a public movement against online trolling."

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Not trolling by Anonymous Coward · 2015-08-20 00:43 · Score: 2, Interesting

When did the definition of "trolling" change? Trolling means that you post something solely to bait a response from someone. For example posting "There is no God" in a forum full of Catholics or "Obama is awesome" in a KKK forum. What they are talking about here is spreading propaganda.