If ever DU is plagued by Russian trolls, this might be useful:

[ariadne0614]

https://theconversation.com/propaganda-spewing-russian-trolls-act-differently-online-from-regular-people-100855

[htuttle]

1. Is fake news

Work of moose and squirrel.

[PurgedVoter]

2. If?

Seriously. If?

[BootinUp]

4. Same reaction. Nt

[ariadne0614]

9. Color me sardonic.

[muriel_volestrangler]

3. That's me fucked, then

I've always listed my location on DU as 'England' since I think that gives necessary context for my opinions, but I don't feel like giving more information that might identify me if I don't want to be. And I post from a laptop, and use Twitter's own web pages when I (rarely) post there. So by the article's first two metrics, I could well be a Russian troll.


Or, it's not that useful after all.

[rzemanfl]

6. I have never yet seen a Russian troll with a Donor Star, so you're good here. n/t

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[Rhiannon12866]

10. And other sites don't have MIRT!

[Yonnie3]

5. "The trolls' efforts take advantage of weaknesses in society; ...

The valuable part of this piece is (with my emphasis):

The trolls’ efforts take advantage of weaknesses in society; the only fix for that is for people as individuals and collectively to think more critically about online information, especially before sharing it.

[samnsara]

7. on twitter i look at their profile.. the number of followers and following..

..usually all the numbers are under 100 or even less.. then I mark them as trolls or bots to my followers...hopefully they block instead of engaging.

[DetlefK]

8. I'm pretty sure I met a russian troll on DU:

We had lots of arguments about all things Syria and Russia and he was very pro-russian. And the day before the election he stopped posting. And Yes, I remember his name.

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