Wall Street Journal, the Guardian, they’ve all reported this. The Putin supporters are so abrasive, it’s hard to match their dinginess.
I wonder if this plant in St. Petersburg has equipment, computers to disguise the trolls location.
That isn’t the point.
Take a stroll through any number of glass-front office park buildings around DC, and you’ll see literally dozens of the exact same operations.
Before the coup, CNN was lauding how “Sophisticated” the EuroMaidan’s “Internet Opinion Operation” was, and even showed the servers, and people online, in several languages.
Hillary Clinton’s “Clinton’s Civil Society 2.0 initiative” sponsored the Soros “Open Society”-financed “Tech Camps” in Ukraine leading up to Maidan.
This guy has posted this same BS over a dozen times now, trying to create an IMPRESSION, without ever once mentioning that EVERYONE is doing it. That’s simple hypocrisy, and he does have an agenda to pimp.
I wonder if this plant in St. Petersburg has equipment, computers to disguise the trolls location.”
That facility is just the tip of the iceberg. I'm sure there are many similar ones and many much more sophisticated where they don't employ students off the street. Besides, internet trolling is just one of the “soft” tolls. Their “assets” (agents and useful idiots) in western media, business and governments are much more dangerous. Russia has been run by KGB since 16 years, they have never had that much influence, even during soviet times.
46.161.41.199 St Petersburg 91.207.6.18 Kysehv Ukraine 213.231.43.77 Odessa Ukraine
They're just a few that visit my site a couple hundred times a month. They don't communicate so I figure they're just there to get a pulse.
Chinese used to visit a lot as did Turkey but I think their crawlers were responding to the mention of them in news stories.
None of the foreign visits are near as many as I get from Chicago, though. But to be honest half of the Chicago visits appear to be commercial. I do get a lot of abuse watchers judging by the information gleaned from tracing the IP's.
You can enter IP addresses into your favorite search engine for the information.