Scary stuff. Orwell for the information age?
Please forgive me if it has already been posted, but I thought this was pretty interesting … though Russian trolls are of course not news, the sheer scale, audacity and malevolence of the industry is disturbing. Assuming, of course, that the article is accurate.
Wow, that is an amazing article. Especially at the end when it turns out that he was set up by the the woman he was supposedly interviewing so that he would look bad on Russian media.
That whore is selling her story to any bidder at any price without any evidence.
Every new article seems to add something.
One wonders if there is really any counter to such tactics as those described in the article.
Hire your own trolls!
AN ARMY RISES IN THE EAST O.o.
Or just employ the goonsquad.
This calls for the brute squad.
Alright, we raise them with one each of those. I never liked the argument “Quality over quantity” nor “Quantity has a quality of its own”. Why not both?
But the Russians are sneaky bastards.
They would probably call that and raise us with mailorder brides.
The nerds wouldn’t stand a chance.
You are the brute squad.
Look at this bullshit.
In Spiegel she says she joined because of her journalistic ambitions and to expose the evil within.
In AFP which was the first place this whole thing was published she says she did it for the money.
You’re really not a big fan of the critics of the Russian government, are you?
So much not a big fan that you didn’t read enough of the OP’s article to realize it has multiple sources quoted directly in the article… for some reason Savchuk attracts unusual ire from you while you ignore Burkhardt, Volkov, Aistova, and Soshnikov.
No point in discussing this with you since I’ve already won the debate but here goes a couple of future exchanges with you and me:
/ Please cite the other sources.
“Bla bla bla Volkov”
“So you think Russians should have access to media?”
“Aistova!”
“but but…Fuck me, Burkhardt then?”
Saved us 9 exchanges now. Anything else?
I actually found the Russian source. Holy shit it’s like 250 times better than the European&US sources. They got video and documents.
Seems the lying whore might just be mixing things up instead or shit might be lost in translation.
http://www.mr7.ru/articles/112478/
Use google translate.
My bad then. But I can’t be held accountable for disastrous western journalism. It’s going down the drain each day.
Woah. It’s like summoning a genie from the bottle. :eek:
This is epic. The Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta has published actual lists of the supposed trolls.
These even have links to them in some case when they have blogs.
The blogs are hilariously similar with random content, no personal pictures and pro-Russian statements x)