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Ex-workers at Russian ‘troll factory’ trust US indictment
AP via WNCN.com ^ | 2/19/18 | AP

Posted on 02/19/2018 12:47:01 PM PST by Rebelbase

[snip] The aim of the factory’s work was either to influence voters or to undermine their faith in the U.S. political system, the 37-page indictment states.

Putin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters Monday that while the indictment focuses on “Russian nationals,” it gives “no indication that the Russian government was involved in this in any way.” Peskov reasserted that Moscow did not interfere in the U.S. election.

Mindiyarov, who failed the language exam needed to get a job on the Internet Research Agency’s Facebook desk, where the pay was double than the domestic side of the factory. The sleek operation produced content that looked as if it were written by native English speakers, he said.

“These were people with excellent language skills, interpreters, university graduates,” he said, “It’s very hard to tell it’s a foreigner writing because they master the language wonderfully.”

The English test he took asked for a writing sample about Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton’s chances of winning the U.S. presidential vote, Mindiyarov recalled.

“I wrote that her chances were high and she could become the first female president,” he told the AP.

(Excerpt) Read more at wncn.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; Russia
KEYWORDS: agitprop; americanpravda; asspress; buttociatedpress; dmitrypeskov; jamescomey; lisapage; peterstrzok; robertmueller; russia; russiantrolls; trollfactory
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To: ichabod1

That is certainly possible and worth investigating.

I still think it was stupid to issue these indictments and publicly accuse Russia of “meddling in our elections.” Usually that kind of agitprop is handled more subtly by our intelligence community by disrupting their agitprop or applying our own covert disruption against the offending nation.

We do it, they do it, everybody does it. By making it an in-your-face accusation we’ve just invited some very unpleasant very public retaliation. Potentially against innocent American citizens involved in nothing more than legitimate international business.


21 posted on 02/19/2018 3:00:21 PM PST by TigersEye (13 Russian Facebook trolls ... and a Siberian partridge in a Russian Olive tree.)
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To: TigersEye

Looks to me like it’s an excuse for not having anybody else he cares to indict. At this time. But I’m sure he’ll go on looking.


22 posted on 02/19/2018 3:13:25 PM PST by ichabod1 (People don't want to believe it be what it is but it do.)
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To: ichabod1

I think you’re right and Mueller doesn’t care how much damage he does in the process.


23 posted on 02/19/2018 3:17:02 PM PST by TigersEye (13 Russian Facebook trolls ... and a Siberian partridge in a Russian Olive tree.)
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To: Rebelbase

How does this square with US involvement in influencing elections in other foreign countries?

Well for one thing, our coups involve spreading a whole lot more wealth around. US coup masters don’t bother learning some wog language or influencing voters with pathetic ads. We bring the blessing of democracy by paying ambitious locals to kill their elected leaders, then send in sound trucks to blast out “Don’t run. We are your Friends” in English. Good old-fashioned violence from Mossadegh* to Diem to Allende to Saddam got her done. Nothing remotely like this toothless Russkii attempt to confuse idiots with a few FaceBook ads and blog comments.

*We didn’t kill Mossadegh, just dumped him under house arrest and let nature take its course.


24 posted on 02/19/2018 3:23:10 PM PST by Chewbarkah
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To: Rebelbase

“Mindiyarov, who failed the language exam needed to get a job on the Internet Research Agency’s Facebook desk, where the pay was DOUBLE THAN the domestic side of the factory.” (My emphasis)

He obviously should have applied for a job at AP if his English wasn’t up to snuff.


25 posted on 02/19/2018 3:31:54 PM PST by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals.")
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To: TigersEye

“And now foreign nations have cause to start issuing indictments on Americans, justified or not, to mess with the U.S.”

Haiti could file a class action lawsuit against all of us who called it a sh*thole.


26 posted on 02/19/2018 3:54:56 PM PST by Rebelbase ( Hillary, DNC, DOJ and FBI colluded with a British National to influence the 2016 Pres. election)
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To: Rebelbase

Heh, I think their lawsuit would suffer a lot in discovery.


27 posted on 02/19/2018 4:02:47 PM PST by TigersEye (13 Russian Facebook trolls ... and a Siberian partridge in a Russian Olive tree.)
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To: BenLurkin

According to Mueller’s indictment:

“In or around November 2016, Defendants and their co-conspirators organized a rally in New York through one ORGANIZATION-controlled group designed to “show your support for President-Elect Donald Trump,” held on or about November 12, 2016. At the same time, Defendants and their co-conspirators, through another ORGANIZATION-controlled group, organized a rally in New York called “Trump is NOT my President” held on or about November 12, 2016.”

Saddest indictment yet. Is Mueller aware the election occurred November 8th? How does one conspire to influence an election after it’s over?


28 posted on 02/19/2018 5:34:37 PM PST by Flick Lives
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To: Rebelbase

It doesn’t. It means the Democrats, even taken at face value, derailed political debate in the US over a baker’s dozen of Internet trolls.

If so, this is “The Troll.” With the period. As in the defining achievement of trollhood ever, no realistic possibility of it ever being topped.


29 posted on 02/19/2018 5:35:11 PM PST by thoughtomator (Number of arrested coup conspirators to date: 0)
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To: Rebelbase; Tennessee Nana; Mark17
Ex-workers at Russian ‘troll factory’ trust US indictment

On holidays, I get double pay at my Christian Troll Factory!

30 posted on 02/19/2018 7:01:11 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: tcrlaf

Voice of America...


31 posted on 02/19/2018 7:01:36 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: TigersEye

Think of matter and anti-matter combining...


32 posted on 02/19/2018 7:02:24 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie

Russians have been openly writing about this troll factory for YEARS. 2013 according to this article. They sow chaos and sponsor flash mobs to unwitting dupes. The organizations they played with are the amazing things hardly talked about.
Have google translate, it is referenced in a WA Post story.

https://www.rbc.ru/magazine/2017/11/59e0c17d9a79470e05a9e6c1

DK


33 posted on 02/19/2018 7:28:39 PM PST by Dark Knight
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To: Rebelbase
Birds of a feather............

Lil Debbie, Donna's Brassiere, and Hillary politically sodomized Comrade Bernie using far more egregious tactics than Boris and Natasha. Plus, they obstructed justice when they refused access to the DNC servers....but then again, the FBI just shrugged it's shoulders then volunteered to help destroy evidence for Hillary's minions.

34 posted on 02/19/2018 7:55:55 PM PST by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.......)
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To: BenLurkin

Other items from Nov 2016:

NOVEMBER 13, 2016 : (LISA PAGE TWEETS TO FBI’S PETER STRZOK : “I bought all the president’s men. Figure I need to brush up on watergate.” )

NOVEMBER 14, 2016 : (LISA PAGE TWEETS TO FBI’S PETER STRZOK : “God, being here makes me angry. Lots of high fallutin’ national security talk. Meanwhile we have OUR task ahead of us.”)

NOVEMBER 14, 2016 Mon : (REPORT : MARY JO WHITE, CHAIR OF THE SEC, ANNOUNCES PLANS TO STEP DOWN, WELL BEFORE HER TERM IS DUE TO EXPIRE IN JUNE 2019 -— LISA PAGE)


35 posted on 02/20/2018 4:40:45 AM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: Dark Knight

Speaking of 2013 :

2013 : (OBAMA SNOOPING DATABASE ON “EVERYTHING” ; MAXINE WATERS)
FLASHBACK: Anti-Trump Rep. Touts Obama ‘Database’ With ‘Information About Everything...’ [VID] , Daily Caller ^ | 3-8-2017 | Christian Datoc
Posted on ?3?/?9?/?2017? ?12?:?18?:?36? ?PM by Syncro
During a 2013 interview with Roland Martin, Congresswoman Maxine Waters propped up the Obama administration for “[putting] in place” a “database [that] will have information about everything on every individual.”
*snip*
“Well, I don’t know. The thing I think some people are missing here is the president has put in place an organization that contains the kind of database that no one has ever seen before in life,” Waters answered, unprompted. “That’s going to be very, very powerful.”
Read more at DC...(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...
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Loretta Lynch was probably referring to this database, and to the embedded bureaucrat subversives, when she stated that Obama will have some way of continuing his agenda after he’s gone.
5 posted on ?3?/?9?/?2017? ?12?:?30?:?55? ?PM by reasonisfaith | To 1


36 posted on 02/20/2018 4:45:50 AM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: Flick Lives

Maybe Mueller is hoping we are so convinced of the meddling that we forgot it was AFTER the election.


37 posted on 02/20/2018 5:05:36 AM PST by FamiliarFace
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To: Rebelbase

MoveOn.org sponsored a “make a campaign ad” contest to oust Bush in 2004. They received THOUSANDS of videos from around the world and hosted them online for viewing/sharing/”voting”.

But never mind Soros’ attempts at having foreign influence on US electoins.


38 posted on 02/20/2018 5:12:32 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Ask a lib if Alger Hiss colluded with the Russians.)
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To: ichabod1
Obama campaigns in Kenya.


Muslim Barack Obama with Mohamed Abdi, Somali
Muslim candidate for Mandera East, Kenya, who lost.

39 posted on 02/20/2018 6:00:04 AM PST by Liz ( Our side has 8 Trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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