TYT: Russia's Online Troll Army Is Huge, Hilarious & Already Everywhere

[uhnope]

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

1. Sowhich candidates are THEY supporting in the US races?

Trump? Webb?

[uhnope]

3. the ones on DU all switched overnight from Warren to Sanders logos

it's the usual tactic of undermining actual progressive causes by joining them and then introducing anti-progressives agendas in the name of anti-imperialism and other moldy orthodox BS

P.S. I support Sanders

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

9. Well, I didn't have a Warren logo before

but I did want her to run - she has a different set of baggage, mostly dealing with being a Republican far more recently, but I think she also had different advantages - she kills off that 'first woman president' advantage for Hillary and there's none of the poutrage over 'socialism'.

[Enrique]

2. spam

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1017232219

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1017226803

[uhnope]

4. do you take the vid personally?

https://www.google.com/search?q=Enrique+ukraine+putin&sitesearch=democraticunderground.com&gws_rd=ssl

[delrem]

5. Yah I wonder what Cenk thinks about being used like this.

This guy is also heavily into censorship, wanting to blacklist just about everything outside the MSM.

[uhnope]

10. delrem: lol. Yeah Cenk hates someone just linking to this video and using his headline. The Outrage!

delrem: "Heavily into censorship." Really? You mean when I try to get Putinistas to stop linking to actual terrorist organization websites as part of their USA-Great-Satan campaign on DU?

And if you think I'm "heavily into censorship"--how would you characterize the Russian gov?

You've made your sympathies for Putin and Gaddafi clear, you seem to think the USA is the mastermind behind ISIS and Democrats are neocons, and of course you are a Nuland-conspiracy-theorist fabulist on Ukraine. Which makes me wonder: Did you, by any chance, take Cenk's video personally?

[newthinking]

6. This is a propaganda meme: Anyone with half a brain knows that the western propaganda apparatus

is much larger and more developed.

Good try though.

We are the propagandists: The real story about how The New York Times and the White House has turned truth in the Ukraine on its head


Noam Chomsky on the American Propaganda Machine and the "Weaponization" of Media and Information



“The idea of a media which does not repeat U.S. propaganda is intolerable to American leaders” - Chomsky

Revealed: US spy operation that manipulates social media
Military's 'sock puppet' software creates fake online identities to spread pro-American propaganda

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2011/mar/17/us-spy-operation-social-networks

[uhnope]

7. I see you are still posting the same old lies

you know full well the military program for social media was aimed at the Arab world, was not in English, and was aimed at preventing young men from joining Al Qaeda etc--but you post it like it is in any way comparable to the actual troll farms that are being run in Russia to spam western news sites. It's totally dishonest and you should be ashamed, even if you are just a volunteer for the cause.

[newthinking]

8. I suspect that people here can read and decide for themselves

I don't expect you to change your views.