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http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/24/russian-troll-factory-sued-underpayment-labour-violations-vladimir-putin?CMP=share_btn_linkThe secretive Russian agency that hires people to write pro-Kremlin propaganda on the web stepped into the public spotlight for the first time on Tuesday as a former employee took it to court.
The Agency for Internet Studies, which runs what has been called a troll factory from a nondescript St Petersburg address, is being sued by employee Lyudmila Savchuk for alleged underpayment and various labour violations.
Savchuk says she was one of many paid to write comments online supporting the policies of Vladimir Putin.
The agency is now seeking to avoid public scrutiny by offering to compensate her. Yekaterina Nazarova, defending, told the Petrogradsky district court judge the agency was ready to settle with Savchuk, who had asked for a symbolic sum of 10,000 roubles (£118).
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Bwahahahaha
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)stevenleser
(32,886 posts)I hope the woman who sued, and her lawyer, leave Russia ASAP.
Vladimir Vladimirovich doesn't like losing face.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)He needs internet trolls now.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)MADem
(135,425 posts)The phenomenon has become particularly intense during the conflict in Ukraine, with some reports claiming the agency has expanded into foreign languages, pictures and videos, and is even running its own news sites.
Savchuks lawyer. Ivan Pavlov, said the result of Tuesdays hearing the second this month after the agency skipped the first was unexpected and he suspected the defendant of trying to escape the public eye.
I suppose the defendant considers it a lesser evil to recognise the lawsuit and pay compensation, he said.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/24/russian-troll-factory-sued-underpayment-labour-violations-vladimir-putin?CMP=share_btn_link
Hilarious.
Duckhunter935
(16,974 posts)For the utter crap they posted here. They are not missed by me.
MADem
(135,425 posts)Either people like trolls, or they don't understand the issues, or they seeded the place full of juror-trolls!
stevenleser
(32,886 posts)the bad guy in any situation, No matter how ridiculous the posit.
The nonsense screeds by Putin's troll factory found a welcome home among those folks.
MADem
(135,425 posts)All they'd have to do is spend a week or two reading this board, and they might be intimidated!
I lived half my life outside this country--and one might say, eh, America....it's not all that great, until you compare it with a LOT of others!!!
I think our immigrant population is what makes us so very unique, we have strength in diversity. We also have some mean assholes who want to turn the dial back to 1776 in terms of our diversity, and reinstitute some of the old power structure too.
I say bring on the immigrants!
stevenleser
(32,886 posts)Speak out about it?
MADem
(135,425 posts)Even wikileaks manages to lose the "Russian paperwork!"
Afraid, perhaps, that a Russian hitman riding a bear will make short work of 'em...?
Oooooooh, makes you wonder....
I think someone bought a stairway to a halfassed heaven....
greatauntoftriplets
(175,694 posts)Cheese Sandwich
(9,086 posts)stevenleser
(32,886 posts)NuclearDem
(16,184 posts)Monsanto and TEPCO, on the other hand, are always on time.
malaise
(267,797 posts)Tarheel_Dem
(31,207 posts)freshwest
(53,661 posts)C, I TOLD U SO!
MattSh
(3,714 posts)It's mostly automated, and one troll can be 100 trolls using such automation.
That's American Ingenuity, Russia! Top that!
stevenleser
(32,886 posts)moondust
(19,917 posts)Vlad doesn't seem to care much for those who cross him.
lovemydog
(11,833 posts)FSogol
(45,355 posts)SidDithers
(44,228 posts)The boot-lickers have been somewhat absent from DU lately too.
Wonder if there's a connection.
Sid
stevenleser
(32,886 posts)become embarrassingly untenable for them to try to make excuses for Putin.
BainsBane
(53,001 posts)All those in the US who believe they are promoting a leftist cause, a cause that exploits labor so badly it loses in Russian court.
It's both funny and tragic.