The Trolls Who Came In From The Cold

[Blue_Tires]

ST. PETERSBURG -- Last May, Tatiana N decided she wanted a higher salary than the average journalist can expect.

After responding to an advertisement in the popular HeadHunter job-search website, she became a Kremlin-paid Internet troll. Tatiana -- who, like others interviewed for this story, asked that her last name not be used -- worked out of a 2,500-square-meter warehouse in the suburbs of St. Petersburg.

The job paid 40,000 rubles a month, significantly more than the 25,000-30,000 most journalists make. But it came, she said, "with pain."

Tatiana joined a round-the-clock operation in which an army of trolls disseminated pro-Kremlin and anti-Western talking points on blogs and in the comments sections of news websites in Russia and abroad.

http://www.rferl.org/content/russia-trolls-headquarters-media-internet-insider-account/26904157.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

[Tarheel_Dem]

1. This explains so much. Much like ISIS, Kremlin trolls are a plague that needs to be rooted out.

[newthinking]

4. Yes, let's consider all of our fellow countrymen who argue to be trolls and put them all in jail!

oh wait... didn't we do that once before? And what did we discover after it was all over?



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCarthyism

"McCarthyism is the practice of making accusations of subversion or treason without proper regard for evidence. It also means "the practice of making unfair allegations or using unfair investigative techniques, especially in order to restrict dissent or political criticism."

[Tarheel_Dem]

6. I have a feeling your "countrymen" aren't mine.

[OnyxCollie]

2. LOL! More "evidence" that Snowden is a tool of Putin.

Both amusing and pathetic.

[newthinking]

3. Anyone really believe that the west is not doing the same?

The real aim of this story is to fight the rise of alternative media and the problem that now intentional narratives get exposed.

[LanternWaste]

7. It's fun to pretend we know what the "real aim" is, is it not...?

It's fun to pretend we know what the "real aim" is, is it not...?

As it certainly doesn't validate one particular agenda, it must then by definition have an "aim" if not be out-right propaganda.

[Fumesucker]

5. Yes, the Mainstream Media is the only accurate and complete source of information

Everything else is just propaganda.

Hold on a sec, while I read the latest tweet from Judith Miller.