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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.
So we're now calling people who dissent to bombing another country without the approval of congress trolls. Isn't this McCarthyism?
Basically, anything Trump flavored has had a pretty heavy tilt in its moderation, towards the pro-Trump. I've worked in a lot of rural areas, and the brand of angry conservatism/superlibertarianism is pretty rare among IT/Software guys. But for some reason, it's hyper-represented on Slashdot in the past few years.
Not that folks can't hold that view - it just seems disproportionate, compared to the population.
Ryan Fenton
Have you ever considered that Trump is probably the most pro-tech worker president we've had in ages? He's the first President who wants to do anything about H-1B abuse. He's the first President who is willing to remove burdensome regulation that has been plaguing small business for decades. He's improving the economy and cutting taxes.
Trump has earned the support he has. There's a reason he is the democratically elected leader of the United States.
Have you ever considered that might be the work of Russian trolls?
They're known to play both sides so they can control the dialogue completely.
The story doesn't even provide any evidence.. just some two paragraph statement that we're supposed to take as fact. The story itself is pretty vague.
Trolling where? Examples?
Sounds and smells like fake news.
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.
Not to mention the story selection and summaries are massively tilted left.
It's more the down modding of any dissenting opinions that are critical of trump that are the problem. Even when they do end up with a positive score there are always troll and flamebait mods too.
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SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
As long as they stick to trolling, they can't do much more damage than they already have. At this point, you're either aware of them, or your mind is already in an alternate universe where kids get molested in nonexistent pizzeria basements by a presidential candidate who fits the typical pedo demographic to a "T". (Although I think I missed the episodes of To Catch a Predator where elderly female politicians arrive at the door with pizzas.)
The Russians would get more payoff at this point from cyberattacking the electrical grid on Election Day. But those who are in a position to prevent this don't seem to mind the trolling at all.
fucking disgusting how pro-corporate, pro-cia, pro-pentagon everyone seems to be
It's more the down modding of any dissenting opinions that are critical of trump that are the problem. Even when they do end up with a positive score there are always troll and flamebait mods too.
Try sorting the dissenting opinions into "insults" versus "insight".
Almost all the "dissenting opinions" here are just simple name calling and deserve to be modded down.
Most of the rest are simple "I think $THE_OPPOSITE", with no background or support.
If you look at comments with that filter, I think you'll find that it's the insults that get modded down.
True insightful posts tend to get modded up.
Not without knowing the criteria the Pentagon is using to brand an actor as a "troll".
That said, I doubt an increase in activity of that magnitude from state agents is feasible. You don't keep 95% of your workforce slack. So for this to be true, either they hired a lot of people in a hurry, or they moved a lot of their trolls off of other projects onto the anti-America beat. But the thing is, that takes specialized language skills and training for a Russian.
I don't doubt that paid Russian anti-American trolls are working overtime, but I very much doubt they've upped their output by 21x. We are very likely to be looking at an increase in activity by a mix of paid mindfuckers and Internet randos who are doing it for their own reasons.
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It could be literally this simple "Russians curious about what is going on are checking US media and social media"... literally that.
I mean, who thinks they're doing quality control on that number?
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Conservatives have an annoying habit of ascribing their own motives and behaviour to liberals.
Il n'y a pas de Planet B.
Reality has a well-known leftist bias.
Overwhelmingly Americans are against any involvement in Syria, and the government is calling these people Russian trolls.
Better than being a moose fucker like APK is
APK loves the moose dick, he sucks it down daily
He complains about open sores but really he is referring to the ones in his ass from all the moose wang he takes
Now shut up and go fuck your moose APK
People have an annoying habit of ascribing their own motives and behaviour to other people.
FTFY.
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