Paid Russian Internet Trolls. Really?
Posted on 05/16/2015 4:17:27 PM PDT by McGruff
A senior aide to Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko on Thursday accused Facebook of political bias, ahead of a question-and-answer session with co-founder Mark Zuckerberg.
"There is pro-Russian influence and pressure on the Facebook office in Russia," said deputy head of the presidential administration Dmytro Shymkiv, who is negotiating with the global social network to solve the problem.
He claimed Russian moderators are overseeing Ukrainian users and are swayed by the Kremlin's political agenda in the conflict in eastern Ukraine.
Facebook users in Ukraine have flooded the social network with allegations of pro-Russian political bias.
Poroshenko this week made a personal appeal to Zuckerberg to open a separate office in Ukraine to prevent such alleged bias, writing from his own Facebook account.
"We have to use all available channels to get reaction from global companies," Poroshenko said. "Ukraine does need a Ukrainian Facebook office!"
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Paid Russian Internet Trolls. Really?
An American media outlet is politically biased? Imagine that...
Well, Facebook is part of the left, so they would be pro-Putin and pro-Russia.
A June article by Max Seddon of BuzzFeed reported the Kremlin was spending millions of dollars to pay English-speaking Russians to promote President Vladimir Putin and his policies in U.S. media like Fox News broadcasting and The Huffington Post and Politico news sites. Trolls are reportedly expected to manage multiple fake accounts and post on news articles 50 times a day, often with sentiments as simplistic as “Putin makes Obama look stupid and weak!”
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/08/the-kremlins-troll-army/375932/
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Documents Show How Russia’s Troll Army Hit America:
http://www.buzzfeed.com/maxseddon/documents-show-how-russias-troll-army-hit-america
Probably true.
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