The Russian Troll Army

[deminks]

There was an amazing article published last year on the Russian Troll army

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/07/magazine/the-agency.html


http://www.npr.org/2015/06/04/412046928/russian-trolls-spread-false-information-on-the-internet

Many of the Russian trolls have turned to Trump trolling:

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/07/putins-online-troll-factory-may-be-trying-to-get-trump-elected-to-undermine-the-us/

(snip)

Months after reporting on those campaigns, which he described as “information warfare,” Chen began to notice something odd about many of the online accounts he had followed during his research.

“A very interesting thing happened,” Chen said during a December podcast with Longform. “I created this list of the Russian trolls when I was researching, and I check on it once in a while, still. And a lot of them 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.”

(end snip)

Treason doth never prosper, what's the reason? For if it prosper, none dare call it Treason.

[backscatter712]

1. I just saw the Raw Story article...

It's a good bet that Putin's troll army may be responsible for some of the r/The_Donald spamming and brigading on Reddit.

[MADem]

2. They are here--at DU--and I'm sick of 'em.

So glad the admins are taking out the trash.

[jtunes]

3. a person, early in suspecting people of being russian operatives

was a man named Senator Joe McCarthy