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Showing Original Post only (View all)Guardian exposes Russian "troll center" where paid trolls spew Putin web propaganda. [View all]
Just after 9pm each day, a long line of workers files out of 55 Savushkina Street, a modern four-storey office complex with a small sign outside that reads Business centre. Having spent 12 hours in the building, the workers are replaced by another large group, who will work through the night.The nondescript building has been identified as the headquarters of Russias troll army, where hundreds of paid bloggers work round the clock to flood Russian internet forums, social networks and the comments sections of western publications with remarks praising the president, Vladimir Putin, and raging at the depravity and injustice of the west.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/02/putin-kremlin-inside-russian-troll-house
Shocking, right? Even DU has at times felt the slimy touch of that Lie Machine, not that it profited them anything. What surprises me is that the Putin regime still wastes time and money on such transparent garbage. It must be the mind-warping effects of being an isolated dictator surrounded by sycophants and a country he already succeeded in cutting off from the world.
Who does he think is being persuaded by that nonsense - bad-grammar-filled ideological rants praising someone everyone outside of Russia loathes and demonizing pretty much every country on Earth other than Russia. The article mentions that it's mostly older Russians who are deceived due to lack of familiarity with the internet, but Putin is in trouble if that's his political foundation. Moreover, all he's succeeded in doing outside of Russia's borders is reminding everyone what a psychopath he is.
It would be laughable if weren't also so unbelievably insulting, not to mention a desecration of the free speech enabled by the internet. It's as if people like that just can't help themselves - they absolutely have to shit on everything that's benign in the world, sabotage and corrupt every possible source of human enrichment.
The internet is a pretty silly place a lot of the time, but individually-motivated trolls are merely a spice on an otherwise nourishing resource. But this kind of nationally-organized and funded troll army is an attack on the fundamental purpose of the internet, and all who believe in it.
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Guardian exposes Russian "troll center" where paid trolls spew Putin web propaganda. [View all]
True Blue Door
Apr 2015
OP
Disturbing stuff. Putinistas seriously are descending into Nazi pathology.
True Blue Door
Apr 2015
#61
They're not late to the game at all. They were doing it on a grand scale
True Blue Door
Apr 2015
#90
This specific sub-thread is about the ideology behind their military aggression in Ukraine.
True Blue Door
Apr 2015
#98
why would you think they need to take notes from putin? it's laughable. all these
ND-Dem
Apr 2015
#114
We definitely still have a few around. Perhaps we should be flattered at the attention.
Hekate
Apr 2015
#15
It's never flattering to be pissed on, no matter who's doing the pissing.
True Blue Door
Apr 2015
#18
Why? Is the Kremlin operating a "Colmes squad" to Straw Man their opposition?
True Blue Door
Apr 2015
#65
How nice we have an example of what your OP is reporting .. right on this very thread.
Cha
Apr 2015
#67
The depth of corruption of our own nation is revealed by its incessant propaganda aimed at Americans
woo me with science
Apr 2015
#21
So you're literally going to do what was just described as the Kremlin troll playbook:
True Blue Door
Apr 2015
#24
He's a propaganda minister aiming lies at the people our govt. is supposed to be representing.
woo me with science
Apr 2015
#70
I'm not the one citing radical right-wing sources to derail a conversation about Kremlin trolling
True Blue Door
Apr 2015
#37
LOL.. you got Alerted on by someone who was offended by "Russian Trolls"! 7-0 LEAVE!
Cha
Apr 2015
#104
You are seriously desperate to not talk about Kremlin trolling, aren't you?
True Blue Door
Apr 2015
#31
I assume breaking windows is much harder if one works in a concrete basement.
True Blue Door
Apr 2015
#45
See, now you're actually putting in some credible effort. This is how to do it.
True Blue Door
Apr 2015
#50
+1. LOL, they'll all be hitting alert now. Be careful, jury notices will be flying
FSogol
Apr 2015
#59
No one should be hidden for calling that murdering Nazi fuckwad what he is.
True Blue Door
Apr 2015
#93
I know.. the little putinistas' sensibilities were mightily offended. Must be punished.
Cha
Apr 2015
#94
Bringing their sickly byzantine political lifestyle onto an American liberal website...
True Blue Door
Apr 2015
#96
And apparently the entire Western media is in on the "wild conspiracy theory."
True Blue Door
Apr 2015
#123
Apparently, yes...seems everyone who does not agree 100% with the poster is a troll...what does that say about the poster?
Fred Sanders
Apr 2015
#99
Yeah, someone obviously didn't attend the briefing about the vagaries of American internet politics.
True Blue Door
Apr 2015
#52
Oh does the OP offend your sensibilities.. you have to try and distract with INFO WARS!
Cha
Apr 2015
#107
True if you have created a new meaning for "analogous". Fox the same as RT...NOT!
Fred Sanders
Apr 2015
#79
Fox has no influence outside their hard core viewers, you opine? Sorry, end of discussion for me with you.
Fred Sanders
Apr 2015
#83
Truthfully your wall to wall insults are destroying your entire OP credibility....I got no problem with Internet insults.
Fred Sanders
Apr 2015
#92
Yes, fox "news" is for the neocons/kochroaches/teabaggers, et cetera. RT is for the Russian
Cha
Apr 2015
#106
Yes, fox "news" is for the neocons/kochroaches/teabaggers, et cetera. RT is for the Russian
Cha
Apr 2015
#103
If it's Godwin's Law to equate a murderous tyrant who invades other countries
True Blue Door
Apr 2015
#121
"..with remarks praising the president, Vladimir Putin, and raging at the depravity and injustice
Cha
Apr 2015
#63
I want to know when we can finally ban these rodents, from this website at least?
True Blue Door
Apr 2015
#89
The longer we allow this to go on, the more of them will become "long-term members"
True Blue Door
Apr 2015
#122
Sometimes it's very hard not to wonder if this site's title is some kind of joke.
True Blue Door
Apr 2015
#125