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Inside the Russian 'troll factory': How Putin's unlikely cyber recruits deployed waves of fake news articles, memes and divisive social media posts in the Kremlin's information war on the West
Internet Research Agency
The Internet Research Agency (IRA), also known as Glavset[2] and known in Russian Internet slang as the Trolls from Olgino or kremlebots, is a Russian company, based in Saint Petersburg, that engages in online influence operations on behalf of the Russian government. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Research_Agency
Post 5, clearly the OP thinks this is made just for trump....
That is the same troll farm which I mentioned in the OP. They just tripled their office space, so I guess they will be hiring soon. The starting wage for a junior troll of $1000 per month, and more experienced trolls get more.
Post 5, clearly the OP thinks this is made just for trump....
No, Finn is just commenting on the same thing I am commenting on --- that y'all Trumpsters are immediately getting defensive and dismissing the impact of Russian propaganda tactics, because you think this topic is all about Trump.
It isn't about Trump at all. It is about manipulation of popular opinion by a foreign government, using social media. Like I said earlier it probably got ramped up with the Russian gov't trying to manage public opinion about the Crimean invasion.
No, Finn is just commenting on the same thing I am commenting on --- that y'all Trumpsters are getting defensive and siding with Russian propaganda tactics, because you think this topic is all about Trump.
It isn't about Trump at all. It is about manipulation of popular opinion by a foreign government, using social media.
Then why mention trump at all?
And I agree with you, it's been happening a long time....longer than most have been born including me. However, I don't side with Russia and because you don't know what sarcasm is and what an actual defense is.....is not my problem...
I don't think anyone is claiming that it started only for Trump. It's an extension of the same propaganda tactics that the Russians started using in the 1930's, just far more sophisticated.
It probably got ramped up during the invasion of Ukraine; and it was probably used heavily in bordering nations like Estonia, Belarus, etc. in 2014-2015. This is an issue that exists independent of Donald Trump and the 2016 election, or any sort of inquiry into Trump.
Correct. No one said it started just for Trump. They used the agency heavily to get him in the WH, but no one claimed it started in 2016. As the article explains they have a department for Ukraine, and a department for US, and other departments, like one for EU, which was utilized during Brexit.
And I agree with you, it's been happening a long time....longer than most have been born including me. However, I don't side with Russia and because you don't know what sarcasm is and what an actual defense is.....is not my problem...
Interesting look into a Russian troll factory. An experienced troll gets paid about $2000 a month, which is pretty good in Russia. From what I have read they have just moved into a larger building to expand their operations.
In November, Facebook testified to Congress that it had linked over 80,000 pieces of divisive content back to the agency, and Twitter provided the Senate Intelligence Committee with almost 3,000 accounts linked to the IRA.
“These troll farms can produce such a volume of content with hashtags and topics that it distorts what is normal organic conversation,” Clint Watts, senior fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, told NBC News. “It’s called computational propaganda, the volume [at] which they push, false information or true, makes things appear more believable than they might normally be in an organic conversation.”
Fascinating article.
Those on one floor would repost and link to articles and posts written on another floor.
Correct. No one said it started just for Trump. They used the agency heavily to get him in the WH, but no one claimed it started in 2016. As the article explains they have a department for Ukraine, and a department for US, and other departments, like one for EU, which was utilized during Brexit.
That's a good point, I hadn't even thought about Brexit.
Weakining NATO and weakning the EU would be Russia's prime objectives, so anything along those lines makes a good target.
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