GOP Site Plans To Infiltrate Liberal Sites With “Trolls”

[Champion Jack]

Hmmmmm
but...that couldn't happen here ....right??

Once you are there, the second part of the strategy is to gain their trust. For this, you cannot be too overtly gung-ho conservative in your outlook. Instead, you sort of have to be the voice of a moderate liberal. This will take a lot of acting skill, but it could be done. For example, over at ThinkProgress, they had an article about how the folks in Alabama got what they deserved with the recent spate of tornadoes because their legislators did not believe in global warming. It took all my energies not to reach through the Internet and strangle these kooks...

http://newsone.com/1424285/gop-site-plans-to-infiltrate-progressive-with-trolls/

[PoliticAverse]

1. Those are amateurs, it's the already existing professionals that are the real problem. n/t

[Jesus Malverde]

23. The mighty Wurlitzer needs to go where the eyeballs are..

A recent air force contract called for:

Software will allow 10 personas per user, replete with background , history, supporting details, and cyber presences that are technically, culturally and geographacilly consistent. Individual applications will enable an operator to exercise a number of different online persons from the same workstation and without fear of being discovered by sophisticated adversaries. Personas must be able to appear to originate in nearly any part of the world and can interact through conventional online services and social media platforms. The service includes a user friendly application environment to maximize the user's situational
awareness by displaying real-time local information.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/02/18/revealed-air-force-ordered-software-to-manage-army-of-fake-virtual-people/

[VanillaRhapsody]

27. they already do this by the thousands!

[HappyMe]

2. This explains the recent influx.

[Just Saying]

3. My favorite line from the article.

What if liberals try this with conservative websites? Let them. Remember that we have facts, logic and reason on our side.

[kentauros]

6. Can statements from another website be considered a DUzy?

[polichick]

26. Their news is fair and balanced too!

[snooper2]

4. Maybe they will get a little more original

Putting "Demo" or "Left" or "Liberal" in their handles isn't working anymore. It's kind of obvious



Just make a handle with your favorite brand of coffee or that shitty engine you hated. Like, Lovemy305

[sibelian]

10. Whatever happened to "Superduperfarleft"?

Not seen that one for ages. Not that I'm positively suggesting anything about them, but... you know...

[Kolesar]

11. ChockFullOfNuts4.0 ...eom

[Vinnie From Indy]

5. The problem for conservatives in this regard is that

most are so bone stupid that they cannot help but out themselves.

[Sheepshank]

9. on DU...they no longer try very hard to cover up, or be subtle

...or am I the only one noticing?

[Paladin]

12. Their lack of effort is obvous to a lot of us, I'm sure. (nt)

[marions ghost]

7. This is news?

those trolls

[sibelian]

8. It's a TERRIBLE idea.

It fails desperately! All that happens is that their message is delivered PLUS COUNTERARGUMENT.

[Tikki]

13. We have had them here before, still do. Most are obvious. Not a clever bunch, for sure.

Tikki

[Kolesar]

14. Our trolls don't act moderate; they are *purist poseurs* who protested every war since Vietnam

Collected signatures for McGovern, tried to get local progressives elected, and just wrapped up a long activist endeavor to pass "single payer". Hence, they have earned the right to be an insulting extremist, second guessing what every elected Democrat does.

[L0oniX]

15. +1

[HappyMe]

19. There are those.

The purists, the Paulbots, the "dividers". Much more subtle, hard to alert on.

[Bobbie Jo]

20. Correct

This place is crawling with them.

[Shrike47]

16. Hush! It's a SECRET plan!

[Enrique]

17. "avoid names like GoPalinGo"

I don't know if we can handle such sophisticated strategery.

[DavidDvorkin]

18. I think this will backfire.

[Rectangle]

21. 'Give it up people, they are too smart for us!!

[ananda]

22. I have to laugh.

We've been infiltrated here for quite a while.

[freshwest]

25. They keep pouring, becoming more obvious after the trumphet was sounded at the Daily Paul.

They explode overthe term Paulbot, but it's in the TOS. Meh.

[S.A.M]

24. Most of them are masquerading as Anti-Obama Progressives.

That OK! Because many progessives are trolling right wing sites as Anti-Gop Tea Party members. What comes ar.....never mind