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Pentagon Reports 2000% Increase in Russia Trolls Since Friday (axios.com)
An anonymous reader shares a report: Pentagon spokeswoman Dana White said in Saturday's briefing that there has been a "2,000% increase in Russian trolls in the last 24 hours," following the coordinated strike against Syria on Friday night.
The media, hollywood, most comedians, all of the big tech companies, and most social media is 24-7 hardcore anti-Trump for almost 2 straight years now. You see a couple of posts on slashdot that are right-leaning get modded up and all of a sudden it's "wildly conservative" now.
Might want to get your sensitivity meter adjusted just a touch.
Yes, you use that common core logic. For those of you not intelligent enough to parse it, common core logic means that whatever I say makes sense and whatever you say is illogical.
Agreed, I have never heard of Axios until I just now clicked the link to check out this story.
Judging by some of the other articles on their website, I can't tell if they're biased, sneaky, or just plain sloppy.
For example, they are running an article on "How Congress reacted to the strikes on Syria", with the reactions being "for" or "against". They labeled the following from Lindsey Graham as "against":
Sen. Lindsey Graham said in a statement: "President Trump deserves credit for working with our allies and ordering this strike against Assad...But I fear that when the dust settled this strike will be seen as a weak military response...It's not the type of sustained, game-changing strategy that will lead to Assad, Russia, or Iran changing or reevaluating their strategy in Syria."
I'd hardly label this call for more of a "sustained, game-changing" strategy as being "against" the airstrikes.
If you post as Anonymous Coward, don't expect a reply.
So we're now calling people who dissent to bombing another country without the approval of congress trolls. Isn't this McCarthyism?
Except in this case there's every reason to think that the majority of these people are directly (or indirectly) in the employ of the Russian government and under orders to advance Russian interests by influencing public opinion in the US.
I stole this Sig
I'm a (former) CPU engineer :) The science is here has mostly dropped to cargo cult level. It's the same with many other subjects.
Gosh, a long and extremely lucid comment. We're allowed to do those here?
Il n'y a pas de Planet B.
Yes, it tells us that there are still a few users around with both mod points and sense.
Il n'y a pas de Planet B.
Axios is a major news site that was launched by a group of guys from Politico. Their mission statement is to be anti-clickbait and anti-advertising. Some of the commentators I listen (like FiveThirtyEight) have mentioned that Axios gets a lot of deep scoops from within the administration, compared to some of the household name outlets these days. They're definitely not right-wing, but I don't believe that automatically makes them left-wing. They don't have any editorials and the articles I've read have been pretty matter-of-fact.
So can you give me some links to the "Pentagon trolls?
Sure, here is some relevant reading:
Military's 'sock puppet' software creates fake online identities to spread pro-American propaganda
Pentagon ramping up public relations offensive: Agency moves to bolster image in face of mounting criticism of Iraq war
U.S. Media Knew Kosovo Reports Were Propaganda
Meet The State Department Team Trying To Troll ISIS Into Oblivion
Military Plays Up Role of Zarqawi -- "The U.S. military is conducting a propaganda campaign to magnify the role of the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq, according to internal military documents and officers..."
Pentagon Paid for Fake âAl Qaedaâ(TM) Videos
The Government's Social Media Propaganda Machine
âoeOn the Offensiveâ: US State Dept. Gives $40M Boost to âoeTroll Farmâ Propaganda Efforts
How the American government is trying to control what you think
That should get you started.
Of course, our mass media tends not to emphasize such American skulduggery and propaganda. They'll do an initial report on the issue, but it's rarely, if ever, put into the news loop and repeated over and over and over again. Funny how that works, eh? It makes one think of Ted Turner, the founder of CNN, who once bluntly said, "There's really five companies that control 90 percent of what we read, see and hear."
If you want any more you'll have to search for it.