Off Topic I know someone that works here

Sorry, not been around on here much but this made me think of you lot...

... Well one of you. (not naming names but the game is now up Mr. Igor "S..." O'Kruschevic)

http://m.startribune.com/world/305426671.html

 

Sympathy post.


Hello mate

 

Russia's army of online "trolls" at front line of campaign to shape opinion at home, in West
By IULIIA SUBBOTOVSKA, Associated Press
May 29, 2015 - 6:40 AM

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ST. PETERSBURG, Russia — Deep inside a four-story marble building in St. Petersburg, hundreds of workers tap away at computers on the front lines of an information war, say those who have been inside. Known as "Kremlin trolls," the men and women work 12-hour shifts around the clock, flooding the Internet with propaganda aimed at stamping President Vladimir Putin's world vision on Russia, and the world.
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he Kremlin has always dabbled in propaganda, but in the past year its troll campaign has gone into overdrive, adding hundreds of online operatives to help counter Western pressure over its role in the pro-Russian insurgency in eastern Ukraine. The program is drawing Serbia away from its proclaimed EU membership path and closer to the Russian orbit, and is targeting Germany, the United States and other Western powers. The operation has worried the European Union enough to prompt it to draw up a blueprint for fighting Russia's disinformation campaign, although details have not yet been released.

Lyuda Savchuk, a single mother with two children, worked in the St. Petersburg "troll factory" until mid-March. The 34-year-old journalist said she had some idea of the Orwellian universe she was entering when she took the job, but underestimated its intensity and scope.

"I knew it was something bad, but of course I never suspected that it was this horrible and this large-scale," she said in an interview in her apartment, which has colorful drawings on the walls for her two preschool-age children.

She described how the trolls manage several social media accounts under different nicknames, such as koka-kola23, green_margo and Funornotfun. Those in her department had to bash out 160 blog posts during a 12-hour shift. Trolls in other departments flooded the Internet with doctored images and pro-Putin commentary on news stories that crop up on Russian and Western news portals.

In some departments, she said, the trolls receive daily talking points on what to write and what emotions to evoke. "It seems to me that they don't know what they are doing," Savchuk said. "They simply repeat what they are told."

She said most of the trolls are young and are attracted by relatively high monthly salaries of 40,000 to 50,000 rubles ($800 to $1,000).

In Germany, the foreign ministry has tried to counter the propaganda by issuing a memo to its diplomats on how to debunk some of the standard Russian arguments about the Ukraine conflict.

For instance, the memo answers the statement that "fascists are in power in Kiev" by noting that radical and far-right groups made up only a small proportion of the demonstrators who ousted the Russia-friendly president, and that far-right parties did very poorly in subsequent parliamentary and presidential elections.
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Dusan Stojanovic in Belgrade, Serbia and Frank Jordans in Berlin contributed to this report.

 

Welcome to the site!

 

Hello!

(work has blocked not606 now. )

 

How any of your colleagues are on here?

Or: How much were you on here?

 

morning milk.

you'll miss next mafia game then...

shame...

 

Welcome newbie

 

As quick as ever I see.

 

I have been on here a lot in the past but not recently. Only recently blocked.

I think it's proboards in general that is blocked.

 

****ing spammers...

 

Dunno, Russian trolling is not as bad as US incineration of Syrian children from the safety of the air to be fair

Putin, where's my ****in Rubles?

 

To be honest the thought of you sitting in a small dimly lit concrete 2nd World office ; with a stark naked lightbulb swing above your head and a Topless Putin poster on the wall, scratching your head trying to think of how to spin a Liverpool forum is amusing.

 

Just earning my rubles mate, I get paid per post ****ing rubles don't exchange well for Euros tho

As for this stupid "paid trolls" lark

Everyone has their trolls now, US State Department, Monsanto, Russia China, Israel has a famous global hasbara network that not only trolls but funds publications and educational material.

It's almost as funny as your "Russian anti gay laws" nonsense, as far as I know priests don't get locked up ther for marrying a lesbian couple, yet that very thing happens in the US. #irony

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This one is a perfect mirror for the Russian attitude and their new laws. This billboard poster was paid for by Mitt Romney's own finance campaign manager, yes a presidential campaigner.. ohh more irony

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Alabama Minister Arrested After Attempt to Marry Same-Sex Couple
http://www.advocate.com/politics/re...-arrested-after-attempt-marry-same-sex-couple
"“Judge Booth explained that if he let one couple be married, he would have to let everybody (gay couples) be married, and then had me arrested"

Sorry what were you saying about Russia again?