It looks like Russia hired internet trolls to pose as pro-Trump Americans

[Skidmore]

http://www.businessinsider.com/russia-internet-trolls-and-donald-trump-2016-7

Russia's troll factories were, at one point, likely being paid by the Kremlin to spread pro-Trump propaganda on social media.

That is what freelance journalist Adrian Chen, now a staff writer at The New Yorker, discovered as he was researching Russia's "army of well-paid trolls" for an explosive New York Times Magazine exposé published in June 2015.

"A very interesting thing happened," Chen told Longform's Max Linsky in a podcast in December.

"I created this list of Russian trolls when I was researching. And I check on it once in a while, still. And a lot of them have 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," he said....more

[Cha]

1. The plot gets thicker!

Mahalo, Skidmore.

[Skidmore]

2. Mahalo, Cha.

When I think of some of the awful pro-Trump and anti-Hillary stuff I've seen on comment sections around the internet, it doesn't surprise me.

[Cha]

3. Nothing is below them.. The Russians have had little mole trolls

all over the Internet, pushing pro putin and anti-President Obama PROPAGANDA.

I've seen that myself.. so obvious.

And, now dumping emails from the DNC via wikileaks right before the Democratic Convention?

Also, why hasn't trump released his tax returns?

[merrily]

4. At this point, we should just assume anyone with money has hired posters, facebook likers

and tweeters. That is the minimum. If you have really big bucks, you might throw in some hackers, too.

[MrScorpio]

5. What is it with Republicans who betray their own country...

Just to get elected? Nixon, Reagan-Bush and now Trump. Jeez!

The Manchurian Candidate wasn't supposed to be a documentary.

[Coolest Ranger]

6. If this is true

then this should be major news. I had been called all kind of nasty things by Trump supporters. I even had one threaten to shoot me in my one remaining eye once

[NeoGreen]

7. Hey Trolls, this is for you...

...

[MynameisBlarney]

8. There were several at Raw Story yesterday.

Quite easy to spot actually.