How Russia s army of trolls are working to shape opinion online CTV News
Anyone here going on about Nazis running the Ukraine lol?
Anyone here going on about Nazis running the Ukraine lol?
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Russian troll factory flooding internet with propaganda...anyone ?
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The trolls are employed by Internet Research, which Russian news reports say is financed by a holding company headed by Putin's friend and personal chef. Those who have worked there say they have little doubt that the operation is run from the Kremlin.
St. Petersburg journalist Andrei Soshnikov, who was one of the first to report on the "troll factory," said about 400 people work in the building. A video he posted on YouTube this spring gave a rare glimpse inside the building; in one room trolls were shown sitting shoulder-to-shoulder at their computers. The operation moved into the building when it expanded in March 2014, the month Russia seized Crimea from Ukraine and provoked the first round of Western economic sanctions.
Soshnikov, a reporter at the weekly Moi Rayon, or My Region, said there has been a new push in recent months to hire more English-speaking trolls as part of an effort to sway public opinion in the United States.
"All of a sudden, (they) switch on Russia Today and realize that this is a holy land, Obama is a bloody dictator and true freedom of speech exists only in Russia."
In Serbia, trolls are recruited through several small right-wing parties that are both financially and politically supported by Russia, media analysts say.
When Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov was killed in Moscow in late February, the Serbian trolls were quick to react. "Who is to gain from this assassination but America? It must have been CIA," was the dominant mantra that took hold in discussions on Serbian news sites. "Likes" went into the hundreds, while comments such as "Putin is responsible" received widespread ridicule.
Serbs receive most of their information about Russia from Moscow-backed media, and the trolls reinforce the Kremlin line. The result is a widespread view in Serbia that the Kyiv regime is neo-Nazi and that Putin was right to annex Crimea.
"One of the consequences is the fact that popular support for the EU integration has dropped below 50 per cent for the first time since democratic change in Serbia in 2000," said Jelena Milic, a political analyst at the Center for Euro-Atlantic Studies, in Belgrade. "It is going to be very hard to recover this public support."
In Germany, the foreign ministry has tried to counter the propaganda by issuing a memo to its diplomats on how to debunk some of the standard Russian arguments about the Ukraine conflict.
For instance, the memo answers the statement that "fascists are in power in Kyiv" by noting that radical and far-right groups made up only a small proportion of the demonstrators who ousted the Russia-friendly president, and that far-right parties did very poorly in subsequent parliamentary and presidential elections.
The trolls are employed by Internet Research, which Russian news reports say is financed by a holding company headed by Putin's friend and personal chef. Those who have worked there say they have little doubt that the operation is run from the Kremlin.
St. Petersburg journalist Andrei Soshnikov, who was one of the first to report on the "troll factory," said about 400 people work in the building. A video he posted on YouTube this spring gave a rare glimpse inside the building; in one room trolls were shown sitting shoulder-to-shoulder at their computers. The operation moved into the building when it expanded in March 2014, the month Russia seized Crimea from Ukraine and provoked the first round of Western economic sanctions.
Soshnikov, a reporter at the weekly Moi Rayon, or My Region, said there has been a new push in recent months to hire more English-speaking trolls as part of an effort to sway public opinion in the United States.
"All of a sudden, (they) switch on Russia Today and realize that this is a holy land, Obama is a bloody dictator and true freedom of speech exists only in Russia."
In Serbia, trolls are recruited through several small right-wing parties that are both financially and politically supported by Russia, media analysts say.
When Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov was killed in Moscow in late February, the Serbian trolls were quick to react. "Who is to gain from this assassination but America? It must have been CIA," was the dominant mantra that took hold in discussions on Serbian news sites. "Likes" went into the hundreds, while comments such as "Putin is responsible" received widespread ridicule.
Serbs receive most of their information about Russia from Moscow-backed media, and the trolls reinforce the Kremlin line. The result is a widespread view in Serbia that the Kyiv regime is neo-Nazi and that Putin was right to annex Crimea.
"One of the consequences is the fact that popular support for the EU integration has dropped below 50 per cent for the first time since democratic change in Serbia in 2000," said Jelena Milic, a political analyst at the Center for Euro-Atlantic Studies, in Belgrade. "It is going to be very hard to recover this public support."
In Germany, the foreign ministry has tried to counter the propaganda by issuing a memo to its diplomats on how to debunk some of the standard Russian arguments about the Ukraine conflict.
For instance, the memo answers the statement that "fascists are in power in Kyiv" by noting that radical and far-right groups made up only a small proportion of the demonstrators who ousted the Russia-friendly president, and that far-right parties did very poorly in subsequent parliamentary and presidential elections.
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That might explain a lot of the poor English around here. Do they get involved in second amendment threads?
Delta4Embassy
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How Russia s army of trolls are working to shape opinion online CTV News
Anyone here going on about Nazis running the Ukraine lol?
Propaganda only works if you read, listen, or view it. Much the same as I don't read most replies to my threads or thread-replies from known trolls, don't read propaganda from foreigners.
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No, it only works if you believe it.
There were a couple here. I asked them the difference between Commies and Nazis.
They ran away.
They ran away.
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Oh, that one's EASy...
Nazism is the extermination of man by man, whereas Stalinism is the inverse.
Nazism is the extermination of man by man, whereas Stalinism is the inverse.
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I addressed this and was told I'm crazy.How Russia s army of trolls are working to shape opinion online CTV News
Anyone here going on about Nazis running the Ukraine lol?
The protest are staged and paid for the internet is trolled making one person look like a thousand people.
the 80's called they want their cold war back
What dorky president said that?
What dorky president said that?
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Fox is as pure propagada as they can get it plausibly- ditto Heritage, Rush,, the Examiner etc etc- the whole sordid, bought off Murdoch/Koch/Adelson/Scaife/Moon billionaire circle jerk. Works great without even having to pay the hater dupes...
No wonder they love Putin- RW big lie idiocy....and idiot W could see he could be trusted lol. Great job!
RW voters are so ignorant/brainwashed they'll believe any RW propaganda- even from total liars like Nazis: "We're socialists" or totalitarian communists: "We're socialists"...
No wonder they love Putin- RW big lie idiocy....and idiot W could see he could be trusted lol. Great job!
RW voters are so ignorant/brainwashed they'll believe any RW propaganda- even from total liars like Nazis: "We're socialists" or totalitarian communists: "We're socialists"...
hipeter924
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Quite a few come close.How Russia s army of trolls are working to shape opinion online CTV News
Anyone here going on about Nazis running the Ukraine lol?
Though there are more useful idiots* today, than there were in Soviet times - thanks to Russia Today and conspiracy theorists.
*Link: Useful idiot - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia
In the Russian language, the equivalent term "useful fools" (полезные дураки, tr. polezniye duraki) was in use at least in 1941.[6]
The term has been used for fellow travellers and other Communism or Soviet Union sympathizers in Western countries during the Cold War. The implication was that, although the people in question naïvely thought of themselves as standing for a benign socialistideological cause, and as valued allies of the Soviet Union, they were actually held in contempt and were being cynically used by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union for subversive activities in their native Western countries. The use of the term in political discourse has since been extended to other propagandists, especially those who are seen to unwittingly support a malignant cause which they naïvely believe to be a force for good.[7]
Fox is as pure propagada as they can get it plausibly- ditto Heritage, Rush,, the Examiner etc etc- the whole sordid, bought off Murdoch/Koch/Adelson/Scaife/Moon billionaire circle jerk. Works great without even having to pay the hater dupes...
No wonder they love Putin- RW big lie idiocy....and idiot W could see he could be trusted lol. Great job!
RW voters are so ignorant/brainwashed they'll believe any RW propaganda- even from total liars like Nazis: "We're socialists" or totalitarian communists: "We're socialists"...
yup...that about covers it......LOL
Andrei Lisitsyn
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Adrian Chen, the New York Times reporter, conducted his own investigation into the Putin’s troll factory in St.Petersburg more than a year ago. He failed then to find out some proofs of existence of the Internet Research Agency LLC. But some events on the Internet like stove-pipings on the news resources and fake accounts of commentators were the undocumented proof that troll factory really exists and works. In the beginning of 2015 there was a conflict between the Agency and their former employee, Lyudmila Savchuk. All the known info about pro-Kremlin troll farm on the date of June 2 Adrian Chen collected in the article “The Agency”.
Sources: Russian agency creates army of trolls to spread propaganda - NY Daily News
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/07/magazine/the-agency.html?_r=0
Sources: Russian agency creates army of trolls to spread propaganda - NY Daily News
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/07/magazine/the-agency.html?_r=0
Delta4Embassy
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We do it too. All the stuff we criticize Russia, DPRK, Iran, etc. for doing online is stuff we invented 
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deltex1
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It didn't work over there. It works here because Obama sucks and the libtards love him.We do it too. All the stuff we criticize Russia, DPRK, Iran, etc. for doing online is stuff we invented
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It didn't work over there. It works here because Obama sucks and the libtards love him.We do it too. All the stuff we criticize Russia, DPRK, Iran, etc. for doing online is stuff we invented
Sucks what? Reggie?
Delta4Embassy
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What dya think they're doing at US Cyber Command? They're not playing Solitaire.
deltex1
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It sure has slowed Iran and Russia and China down.
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