Russia not happy that Facebook has finally begun dismantling some of the thousands of Kremlin troll

[soothsayer]

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James Farro
@JF991
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Sep 26, 2020
Russia not happy that Facebook has finally begun dismantling some of the thousands of Kremlin troll networks aimed at stoking civil war in US.

Russian Embassy in USA 🇷🇺

Russia government account
We call on @facebook administration to stop avoiding constructive communication with the Russian authorities, to establish a normal dialogue on issues of mutual concern.

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Olga Lautman
@OlgaNYC1211
"Constructive"?? Like anything can be constructive with Russian intelligence networks creating chaos and division in countries. Kremlin always gaslighting
10:35 AM · Sep 27, 2020

[StClone]

1. The Reds (Yes call them Reds!) they poison everything

[kimbutgar]

2. Now whenever I see some outrageous from someone on Facebook I check their profile and

They if they look trollish I report them all the time.

That said I am going off Facebook starting October 1st until after the election. I’ll miss my friends but I fear it will be too stressful. I like that Facebook is getting the message from users they don’t like these Russian trolls.

[soothsayer]

3. Good for reporting them! And getting off FB

[DFW]

4. I almost never look at Facebook any more, but Russians LOVE the Washington Post*s comments boards

I have to assume they have their trolls on the board of every major newspaper, NYT, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, LA Times, Chicago Tribune etc. etc etc. You'd think that have caught on by now, but they STILL make the same grammatical mistakes that Russian trolls make when then visit DU. It's almost as if they haven't progressed since the days of "Look, Boris, is moose and squirrel!"

For those not familiar with Russian grammar, they have no verb "to be" in the present tense, and they have no articles. To say "the house is on the corner," a Russian would say "House on corner (Дом--на углу )." Though not a tonal language, their inflection will indicate whether they are telling you where the house is, or whether they are saying something about a house that is on the corner. The leaving out of articles, though, is a dead giveaway. "I meet big number liberals in year (I meet a big number of liberals in a year)" is typical of a Russian. They don't have the word "of," since they change the endings of the words to indicate that. "Gorod= a/the city. Goroda = of a/the city.

There are three main sources of Russian trolls working full time to disrupt cyber life here. One is the so-called Internet Research Agency at Savushkina Street 55 in St. Petersburg. They are (supposedly, anyway) strictly civilian. Then there are two directorates of their military intelligence, the GRU (ГРУ ). Those are Directorate 74455 and Directorate 26165. They are not as easy to pin down, operating out of nameless building façades, and I am nowhere nearly well versed enough to state who is working on what, or how sophisticated one might be compared to another.