REPORT: Kremlin Paid “Army Of Internet Trolls” To Pose As Pro-Trump Americans On Social Media

[kpete]

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REPORT: Kremlin Paid “Army Of Internet Trolls” To Pose As Pro-Trump Americans On Social Media
July 27, 2016 2016 Election, News, Politics



Business Insider reports:

Russia’s troll factories were, at one point, likely being paid by the Kremlin to spread pro-Trump propaganda on social media.

That is what freelance journalist Adrian Chen, now a staff writer at The New Yorker, discovered as he was researching Russia’s “army of well-paid trolls” for an explosive New York Times Magazine exposé published in June 2015.

“A very interesting thing happened,” Chen told Longform’s Max Linsky in a podcast in December.

“I created this list of Russian trolls when I was researching. And I check on it once in a while, still. And a lot of them have turned into conservative accounts, like fake conservatives. I don’t know what’s going on, but they’re all tweeting about Donald Trump and stuff,” he said.

In his research from St. Petersburg, Chen discovered that Russian internet trolls — paid by the Kremlin to spread false information on the internet — have been behind a number of “highly coordinated campaigns” to deceive the American public.

It’s a brand of information warfare, known as “dezinformatsiya,” that has been used by the Russians since at least the Cold War. The disinformation campaigns are only one “active measure” tool used by Russian intelligence to “sow discord among,” and within, allies perceived hostile to Russia.

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http://www.joemygod.com/2016/07/27/report-kremlin-paid-army-internet-trolls-pose-pro-trump-americans-social-media/
http://www.businessinsider.com/russia-internet-trolls-and-donald-trump-2016-7

[tonyt53]

1. Like when someone jumps out from around the corner and takes you by surprise except no surprise here

There will be a lot more to come on this connection.

[edhopper]

2. How is the Trump-Putin story

not HHUUUGGGEEE?

[Koinos]

3. K & R

[Peacetrain]

4. We need to get all these threads and ops together..

this is mind boggling

[RandiFan1290]

5. A lot of obvious fake profiles on Facebook

If you look on the "media" sites you can see a lot of profiles from far off places like Albania, India and Pakistan and some African countries. They all are fairly new and copy and paste a lot of the same rw propaganda. They are also liking the posts up to block out other posts.

Then this 'Rev com' group and a new group of supposed "BLM" protesters show up with the full attention of the media as they ignore everyone else... Some strange things going on

[rjsquirrel]

6. Of course they did

Comrade Donald must be pleased.

[flamingdem]

7. Make Russia Great Again!!