How Samantha Bees Full Frontal Tracked Down Russias Pro-Trump Trolls

[TomCADem]

The recent intelligence report confirms a segment that was done by Samantha Bee on Russia's use of paid trolls to influence foreign politics.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/11/07/how-samantha-bee-s-full-frontal-tracked-down-russia-s-pro-trump-trolls.html

When Full Frontal executive producer Miles Kahn decided to travel with host Samantha Bee to Moscow for a series of field piece segments on how America could turn into Russia if Donald Trump becomes president, they had no idea how relevant that story would feel on the eve of Election Day.

This was back in mid-summer when the Trump campaign’s connections to the Russian government, through since-fired manager Paul Manafort and former foreign policy adviser Carter Page, were just starting to bubble up to the surface.

“This was a huge story that a lot of western journalists really hadn’t talked about that much,” Kahn, who also produced Bee’s field pieces at The Daily Show, tells The Daily Beast. “It wasn’t by design but it seems it has now come to a boiling point so, for whatever reason, we got lucky with this issue we chose to investigate. We knew it was going to be part of the conversation, but we didn’t realize it was going to be so domineering this late in the game.”

The team ended up traveling to Russia in early October, where Bee interviewed a couple of masked trolls who say they have been paid by the Kremlin to post negative things about Hillary Clinton—and positive messages about Trump—all over U.S. social and traditional media websites.

[Historic NY]

1. Just like the paid RT trolls over Russia's role

in Ukraine etc.. RT Russian owned state media.

[Scurrilous]

2. K & R

[tanyev]

3. That was a really good piece they did. But it made me sad that the only place

to see anything like that was on a show that is considered a comedy.

[BadgerMom]

4. Yep

+1

[tiredtoo]

5. sadly

the only place one can find real news these days is on comedy shows.

[caballojm]

6. If we had any journalists with integrity these days,

they'd probably be ashamed a comedy news show got this giant scoop before they did. Sadly, I'm pretty sure the people who pass for "journalists" now don't even understand the concept of shame.

[SunSeeker]

7. K & R

[Ligyron]

8. Trolls are still all over sites like Yahoo News in the comment sections.

Sometimes, for fun, I post over there to fuck with them and it's a blast! They're such dumb-asses, they never have any good come-backs.

It's fun to piss off the American true believers too, accusing them of being Russian stooges. "Cause ya never really know, right?

If anyone ever gets bored, give it a try and you'll have fun - I promise.

[elmac]

9. Oh, putin isn't done yet

since he is obviously getting away with war on the US he will take bigger, bolder steps to keep his new country and his new buddy sniffles inline.

[mopinko]

10. once in a while i wonder if all the fears about women

dont have a grain of truth in that they dont just follow along. they question, they dig, and they are so often the whistle blowers.
fear that we are just a little bit better people than most men. shhh. dont say that out loud.