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To: Enlightened1
Internet Troll Operation Uncovered in St. Petersburg [Russia]
The St. Petersburg Times Issue #1778 (37)
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| Wednesday, September 18, 2013 | Sergey Chernov
Posted on Mon 05 May 2014 09:00:12 AM MDT by WhiskeyX

Local reporters have infiltrated a covert organization that hired young people as “Internet operators” near St. Petersburg and discovered that the employees are being paid to write pro-Kremlin postings and comments on the Internet, smearing opposition leader Alexei Navalny and U.S. politics and culture.

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According to Lvova, each commenter was to write no less than 100 comments a day, while people in the other room were to write four postings a day, which then went to the other employees whose job was to post them on social networks as widely as possible.

Employees at the company, located at 131 Lakhtinsky Prospekt, were paid 1,180 rubles ($36.50) for a full 8-hour day and received a free lunch, Lvova wrote.

(Excerpt) Read more at sptimes.ru ...



20 posted on 07/01/2014 12:10:30 PM PDT by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
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To: familyop

You don’t think Ukraine has the same propagandist. Probably paid for with your tax dollars.


21 posted on 07/01/2014 12:28:01 PM PDT by McGruff (It's not the crime, it's the cover-up they said.)
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Russia’s top 40 lies about Ukraine
22 posted on 07/01/2014 12:28:20 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: familyop

Internet Troll Operation Uncovered in St. Petersburg [Russia]
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Wow tcrlaf you and comrades here work cheap, free lunch too huh?


23 posted on 07/01/2014 12:50:29 PM PDT by free_life (If you ask Jesus to forgive you and to save you, He will.)
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