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Yahoo NewsOctober 15, 2017
The Russians who worked for a notorious St. Petersburg troll factory that was part of Vladimir Putins campaign to influence the 2016 presidential election were required to watch the House of Cards television series to help them craft messages to set up the Americans against their own government, according to an interview broadcast Sunday (in Russian) with a former member of the troll factorys elite English language department.
The interview, broadcast by the independent Russian TV station Rain, provides new insight into how the troll factory formerly known as the Internet Research Agency targeted U.S. audiences in part by posting provocative comments pretending to be from Americans on newspaper articles that appeared on the websites of the New York Times and Washington Post.
A central theme of this messaging was demonizing Hillary Clinton by playing up the past scandals of her husbands administration, her wealth and her use of a private email server, according to the interview with the agency worker, identified only as Maksim, with his face concealed.
Maksim says he worked for the agency during 2015, the year before the election, when it was already focusing its attention on Clinton. The main message is: Are not you, my American brothers, tired of the Clintons? How many have they already been? Maksim says, adding that he and his colleagues were told to emphasize the Clintons past corruption scandals.
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Madam45for2923
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(12,894 posts)Initech
(100,079 posts)But I wouldn't mind seeing Putin being bombed back to the stone ages.
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(52,243 posts)LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)How precisely does the show's British origin add a layer of relevant interest?
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(52,243 posts)all the details about the processes and structure of american government were absent in the original version as it took place in the u.k. system.