2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumBusiness Insider: "It looks like Russia hired internet trolls to pose as pro-Trump Americans"
Article from July 27, 2016
It looks like Russia hired internet trolls to pose as pro-Trump Americans
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.
Linsky then asked Chen who he thought "was paying for that."
"I don't know," Chen replied. "I feel like it's some kind of really opaque strategy of electing Donald Trump to undermine the US or something. Like false-flag kind of thing. You know, that's how I started thinking about all this stuff after being in Russia."
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DFW
(54,422 posts)We have enough home-grown nut cases like that to make any effort from outside redundant.
renate
(13,776 posts)Otherwise... there just aren't words for the horror that would ensue if Putin's pet American president became the leader of the free world.
StrictlyRockers
(3,855 posts)i want to see this in the major media outlets.
uhnope
(6,419 posts)TeamPooka
(24,238 posts)DetlefK
(16,423 posts)NBachers
(17,130 posts)I can freely voice support for both President Obama and Hillary Clinton without feeling like I'm sticking my neck out to get chopped off. I welcome the change.
It was a long, difficult road to get here.
DemonGoddess
(4,640 posts)This needs to be shouted out all over the damn place!
SheriffBob
(552 posts)imo after watching the video at the link.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)The info is available to admins. Even if they post through a USA hub, the posters would all have the same server hub.