NEW YORK TIMES, RUSSIAN TROLLS
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ACCUSED, but never brought to court. When the agency insisted on its day in court, the DOJ quietly folded its tent and slipped away.
How to make a Big Narrative out of nothing. Literally. But they'll keep flogging it for all it's worth bc that's what they're paid to do.
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger
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What is this stupid ass rambling on about now?
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How you do anything is how you do everything.
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US and allies seize website of prolific Russian speaking-ransomware gang, unlock victims’ computers
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/news/us-and-allies-seize-website-of-pr
olific-russian-speaking-ransomware-gang-unlock-victims-computers/ar-AA1lK3SK?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=09854706c1a046a3bffe3cd96493f104&ei=53
Kick their asses guys.
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US and allies seize website of prolific Russian speaking-ransomware gang, unlock victims’ computers
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/news/us-and-allies-seize-website-of-pr
olific-russian-speaking-ransomware-gang-unlock-victims-computers/ar-AA1lK3SK?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=09854706c1a046a3bffe3cd96493f104&ei=53
Kick their asses guys.
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In the meantime, don't get a virus, dummy.
You shouldn't even be allowed to use a computer without adult supervision.
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Political correctness is just tyranny, with a smiley face.
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Originally posted by THGRRI:
Trolling for Putin:
Saint Petersburg (AFP) - Lyudmila Savchuk says it was money that wooed her into the ranks of the Kremlin's online army, where she bombarded website comment pages with eulogies of President Vladimir Putin, while mocking his adversaries.
"Putin is great," "Ukrainians are Fascists," "Europe is decadent": Savchuk, 34, listed the main messages she was told to put out on Internet forums after responding to a job advertisement online.
"Our job was to write in a pro-government way, to interpret all events in a way that glorifies the government's politics and Putin personally," she said.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trolling-putin-russias-information-war-expl
ained-063716887.html?ref=gs
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This is still relevant because Putin is doing the same during this, our 2024 election.
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Originally posted by THGRRI:Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
I just have to add... THUGR, the reason why you so quickly and unthinkingly betrayed our nation's ideals and the Constitution on which we are founded is because you don't know what you stand for. You haven't given it a moment's thought.
Because of your unwavering defense of Russia and Putin I believe everything you post is for the purpose of discrediting the United States and our Allies. That includes suggesting Americans are failures in all we try to accomplish. You defend Putin while suggesting Hilary has 666 tattooed on her head. There is far too much anti American propaganda posted by you encompassed within these threads for you to call me unpatriotic and anti American. No one buying it SIG.Quote:
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You're as conditioned as one of Pavlov's dogs, who were trained to salivate whenever a bell rang altho no food was in sight: The minute our political leadership wants you to stand up and cheer for "our team" you grab your pompoms. The moment our political authorities paint someone as an "enemy" you want to go to war. It doesn't matter whether the reasons are good reasons, or bad ones, or even completely made-up ones (which is the case most of the time) you unthinkingly jump.
Pavlov’s dog, you have described yourself with uncanny accuracy. The rest is subjective assumptions and bullshit. Just like 98% of what you post in real world.Quote:
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But somehow, despite the fact that you have been fooled time and time again into supporting wars which should have never even been fought, that doesn't seems to prevent you from jumping onto the NEXT bandwagon and supporting our next act of aggression.
This is completely made up. I have not supported any wars here. What I have done, is challenge your honesty of posting about one countries aggressions against others. I have also posted about some of the reasoning behind some of Americas actions. I did and do this to see truth posted in response to your lies.Quote:
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Yanno, I love my country, I really do. I love the ideals that it was founded on, and I would love to see us be a real force for good in the world, or at least not a force for harm. Instead, what I see is us rampaging through the world, killing hundreds of thousands (if not millions), drunkenly creating failed states wherever we "intervene", letting loose the scourge of jihadism and cravenly supporting the Saudis and other repressive regimes because our almighty dollar is threatened.
Name one of our foreign intervention success stories in the past 30 years, I dare you.
It sickens me and make me angry to see our leaders, so corrupt, cynically destroying so many and so much.
I know you love your country; Russia. The rest is bullshit SIG. Whenever it is pointed out what Russia does you defend them while pushing their agenda. It’s that simple comrade.
Here you go SIG, look familiar. It's a picture of a Russian politician.
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Originally posted by THGRRI: Wednesday, August 24, 2016 1:30 PM
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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
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Originally posted by THGRRI:
Trolling for Putin:
Saint Petersburg (AFP) - Lyudmila Savchuk says it was money that wooed her into the ranks of the Kremlin's online army, where she bombarded website comment pages with eulogies of President Vladimir Putin, while mocking his adversaries.
"Putin is great," "Ukrainians are Fascists," "Europe is decadent": Savchuk, 34, listed the main messages she was told to put out on Internet forums after responding to a job advertisement online.
"Our job was to write in a pro-government way, to interpret all events in a way that glorifies the government's politics and Putin personally," she said.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trolling-putin-russias-information-war-expl
ained-063716887.html?ref=gs
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