Taking Down the Troll Farm

[VA.89]

Originally Posted by LGR_NYR

I read the article in the NY Times and I guess I am not surprised. Considering the Show Time series Homeland had made internet farm trolls spreading misinformation a big story line last season. Which was shot well before the election. I guess the only difference between the two was that it was a political party operative/talking head US citizen running the farm.

That Homeland plot was crazy.

[Icy Tea]

Originally Posted by EvilEyeFleegle

Russians...taking on Russians:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world...d02_story.html


"How much the trolls affected the outcome of the U.S. election is unclear. But their omnipresence is evident on Twitter, where one recent study suggested that trolling by pro-Putin bots trolling dominates political talk about Russia, and in the comments section of publications like The Washington Post, where trolls can be found criticizing the premises, lambasting other posters and accusing one another of being trolls.
While the troll farm’s operations have stirred concerns about the reach of Kremlin propaganda across Europe and the United States, Savchuk and her cohorts are concerned about their own country.
“Every online forum, every comment section on every local site, everywhere I look, most of the commenters are trolls,” she said in an interview. “It’s like half the country is trolls.”"

>>>> Worrying about the Russians affecting elections is like calling an exterminator when you see an ant walking across the floor but ignoring the family of possums living in your kitchen cupboards. There was rampant pro Hillary and anti Trump content spewn across MSN, Google, Facebook, Yahoo, Youtube, and on TV leading up to the election but they want to blame the Russians for the actually REAL anti Hillary posts and information that independents and US citizens spent time promoting.