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Early this month, Pando Daily’s Mark Ames (4/2/15) noticed a curious trend: Western media, somewhat strangely, keep breaking the same story of Russia’s paid Internet trolls over and over again as if it’s something new:
The story of how Kremlin trolls are being weaponized to subvert our hallowed social media first broke into the English-language media in mid-March in an article headlined “The Trolls Who Came in From the Cold” — published in, ahem . . . ‘scuse me, somethin’ caught in my throat here… published on the website of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.
Yes, that’s Radio Liberty, aka “Radio Liberation from Bolshevism” aka the US government’s psychological warfare media outfit set up by the CIA during the Cold War, and covered extensively in Pando by Yasha Levine.
The two government outlets [RFE/RL and BBC] bounced the Kremlin Troll Army story back and forth enough times to create critical hack mass, leading to sensational followups everywhere from the tech press to Vice, the New York Post, the Independent, and, today, the Guardian….
Reporting on Russia s Troll Army Western Media Forget West s Much Bigger Sophisticated Troll Army FAIR
It just gets better and better.
They have another one that is worth the read.
They Have Propaganda US Has Public Diplomacy and a Servile Private Sector FAIR
The story of how Kremlin trolls are being weaponized to subvert our hallowed social media first broke into the English-language media in mid-March in an article headlined “The Trolls Who Came in From the Cold” — published in, ahem . . . ‘scuse me, somethin’ caught in my throat here… published on the website of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.
Yes, that’s Radio Liberty, aka “Radio Liberation from Bolshevism” aka the US government’s psychological warfare media outfit set up by the CIA during the Cold War, and covered extensively in Pando by Yasha Levine.
The two government outlets [RFE/RL and BBC] bounced the Kremlin Troll Army story back and forth enough times to create critical hack mass, leading to sensational followups everywhere from the tech press to Vice, the New York Post, the Independent, and, today, the Guardian….
Reporting on Russia s Troll Army Western Media Forget West s Much Bigger Sophisticated Troll Army FAIR
It just gets better and better.
They have another one that is worth the read.
They Have Propaganda US Has Public Diplomacy and a Servile Private Sector FAIR
