NEW YORK TIMES, RUSSIAN TROLLS
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Trolls for hire: Russia's disinformation firms offer propaganda with a professional
touch
The same kinds of digital dirty tricks used to interfere in the 2016 U.S. presidential election and beyond are now up for sale on underground Russian forums for as little as a few thousand dollars, according to a new report from an internet security company.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/trolls-for-hire-russias-disi
nformation-firms-offer-propaganda-with-a-professional-touch/ar-AAI7ilO?ocid=spartandhp
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Well, the board will be poorer without your unique voice, WISH. Fare well, and come back if/when you can.
In the immortal (misquoted) words of Deforest Kelly
I bet she wishes I'd stood in bed
Oh, Bones, where for art thou with thine Tricorder?? For thou couldst divine what fools these Rethugs be and fix them, permanently...
Please to note how he scratches his nose tip at the end... some people have erectile tissue in the end of their noses that tingles when they get mad or horny. It's the same kind of tissue found in genitals, btw. Not everyone has it, though.
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What? Are you bragging about how miserable you are?
People used to try being nice to you, despite how horrible a person you are.
Every time you come back you get worse.
BTW... shouldn't the RWED be shut down by now? I thought that once you left last time the site couldn't go on without you.
But here we are.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Every time you come back you get worse.
Couldn't possibly be a worse person than you, hypocrite
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It probably would seem that way to a robot who isn't self aware.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Originally posted by THGRRI:
55 Savushkina Street, last known home of the Internet Research Agency. Credit James Hill for The New York Times
The Agency
From a nondescript office building in St.
Petersburg, Russia, an army of well-paid “trolls”
has tried to wreak havoc all around the Internet
— and in real-life American communities.
By ADRIAN CHENJUNE 2, 2015
The Columbian Chemicals hoax was not some simple prank by a bored sadist. It was a highly coordinated disinformation campaign, involving dozens of fake accounts that posted hundreds of tweets for hours, targeting a list of figures precisely chosen to generate maximum attention. The perpetrators didn’t just doctor screenshots from CNN; they also created fully functional clones of the websites of Louisiana TV stations and newspapers. The YouTube video of the man watching TV had been tailor-made for the project. A Wikipedia page was even created for the Columbian Chemicals disaster, which cited the fake YouTube video. As the virtual assault unfolded, it was complemented by text messages to actual residents in St. Mary Parish. It must have taken a team of programmers and content producers to pull off.
Who was behind all of this? When I stumbled on it last fall, I had an idea. I was already investigating a shadowy organization in St. Petersburg, Russia, that spreads false information on the Internet. It has gone by a few names, but I will refer to it by its best known: the Internet Research Agency. The agency had become known for employing hundreds of Russians to post pro-Kremlin propaganda online under fake identities, including on Twitter, in order to create the illusion of a massive army of supporters; it has often been called a “troll farm.” The more I investigated this group, the more links I discovered between it and the hoaxes. In April, I went to St. Petersburg to learn more about the agency and its brand of information warfare, which it has aggressively deployed against political opponents at home, Russia’s perceived enemies abroad and, more recently, me.
Savchuk’s revelations about the agency have fascinated Russia not because they are shocking but because they confirm what everyone has long suspected: The Russian Internet is awash in trolls. “This troll business becomes more popular year by year,” says Platon Mamatov, who says that he ran his own troll farm in the Ural Mountains from 2008 to 2013. During that time he employed from 20 to 40 people, mostly students and young mothers, to carry out online tasks for Kremlin contacts and local and regional authorities from Putin’s United Russia party. Mamatov says there are scores of operations like his around the country, working for government authorities at every level. Because the industry is secretive, with its funds funneled through a maze of innocuous-sounding contracts and shell businesses, it is difficult to estimate exactly how many people are at work trolling today. But Mamatov claims “there are thousands — I’m not sure about how many, but yes, really, thousands.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/07/magazine/the-agency.html
Deadly shooting at Russian intelligence agency in Moscow, reports say
At least one person has reportedly been shot dead after an unidentified gunman opened fire on the office of the Federal Security Service, the FSB, Russia’s main intelligence agency, in the heart of Moscow.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/deadly-shooting-at-russian-intell
igence-agency-in-moscow-reports-say/ar-BBYagt0?ocid=spartandhp
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Why Are Republicans So Afraid Of Lev Parnas?
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Never heard of him. Don't give a shit.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Never heard of him. Don't give a shit.
He's been posted about a dozen times in these threads yet you don't know who he is. That's very telling.
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