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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsREPORT: Kremlin Paid “Army Of Internet Trolls” To Pose As Pro-Trump Americans On Social Media
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REPORT: Kremlin Paid Army Of Internet Trolls To Pose As Pro-Trump Americans On Social MediaJuly 27, 2016 2016 Election, News, Politics
Business Insider reports:
Russias troll factories were, at one point, likely being paid by the Kremlin to spread pro-Trump propaganda on social media.
That is what freelance journalist Adrian Chen, now a staff writer at The New Yorker, discovered as he was researching Russias army of well-paid trolls for an explosive New York Times Magazine exposé published in June 2015.
A very interesting thing happened, Chen told Longforms Max Linsky in a podcast in December.
I created this list of Russian trolls when I was researching. And I check on it once in a while, still. And a lot of them have turned into conservative accounts, like fake conservatives. I dont know whats going on, but theyre all tweeting about Donald Trump and stuff, he said.
In his research from St. Petersburg, Chen discovered that Russian internet trolls paid by the Kremlin to spread false information on the internet have been behind a number of highly coordinated campaigns to deceive the American public.
Its a brand of information warfare, known as dezinformatsiya, that has been used by the Russians since at least the Cold War. The disinformation campaigns are only one active measure tool used by Russian intelligence to sow discord among, and within, allies perceived hostile to Russia.
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http://www.joemygod.com/2016/07/27/report-kremlin-paid-army-internet-trolls-pose-pro-trump-americans-social-media/
http://www.businessinsider.com/russia-internet-trolls-and-donald-trump-2016-7
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REPORT: Kremlin Paid “Army Of Internet Trolls” To Pose As Pro-Trump Americans On Social Media (Original Post)
kpete
Jul 2016
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tonyt53
(5,737 posts)1. Like when someone jumps out from around the corner and takes you by surprise except no surprise here
There will be a lot more to come on this connection.
edhopper
(33,615 posts)2. How is the Trump-Putin story
not HHUUUGGGEEE?
Peacetrain
(22,878 posts)4. We need to get all these threads and ops together..
this is mind boggling
RandiFan1290
(6,242 posts)5. A lot of obvious fake profiles on Facebook
If you look on the "media" sites you can see a lot of profiles from far off places like Albania, India and Pakistan and some African countries. They all are fairly new and copy and paste a lot of the same rw propaganda. They are also liking the posts up to block out other posts.
Then this 'Rev com' group and a new group of supposed "BLM" protesters show up with the full attention of the media as they ignore everyone else... Some strange things going on
rjsquirrel
(4,762 posts)6. Of course they did
Comrade Donald must be pleased.
flamingdem
(39,321 posts)7. Make Russia Great Again!!