Posted on 09/08/2022 4:11:45 AM PDT by Timber Rattler
Just before 11 a.m. Moscow Standard Time on March 1, after a night of Russian strikes on Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities, a set of Russian-language Twitter accounts spread a lie that Ukraine was fabricating civilian casualties.
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Late last month, the network of accounts shifted to focus almost exclusively on Ukraine, echoing similar narratives and content across accounts and platforms. A popular post by the account @QR_Kod accused the Ukrainian military of using civilians as human shields. Another post by @QR_Kod portrayed Ukraine as provoking Russia at the behest of its NATO masters. Both tweets received hundreds of likes and retweets and were posted on the same day as the body bag video. At least two Twitter accounts in the network also shared fake fact-checking videos.
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The Internet Research Agency is a private company owned by Yevgeny Prigozhin, a Russian entrepreneur known as “Putin’s Chef.” Prigozhin is linked to a sprawling empire ranging from catering services to the military mercenary company Wagner Group, which was reportedly tasked with assassinating President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. The IRA launched in St. Petersburg in 2013 by hiring young internet-savvy people to post on blogs, discussion forums and social media to promote Putin’s agenda to a domestic audience. After being exposed for its efforts to influence the 2016 U.S. election, the IRA attempted to outsource some of its English-language operations to Ghana ahead of 2020. Efforts to reach Prigozhin were unsuccessful.
But it never stopped its core work of influencing Russian-speaking audiences. The IRA is part of a sprawling domestic state propaganda operation whose current impact can be seen by the number of Russians who refuse to believe that an invasion has happened, while asserting that Ukrainians are being held hostage by a Nazi coup.
(Excerpt) Read more at propublica.org ...
Given America’s increasing involvement (via funding and whatnot) and the disaster that the sanctions have helped cause for the average American or European citizen, it’s only reasonable that isolationists will get more vocal.
Especially the “NAFO” trolls with their insipid and cringeworthy Shiba Inu avatars.
Not to worry. The Ukranian trolls have taken to the hills, hospitals, orphanages, and churches and are conducting a guerilla counter insurgency. The Ukrainian Wolverine trolls are pushing the Russian trolls back all along the front. They vow to fight to the last FReeper. It's only a matter of time.
Victory by Christmas.
Honestly, I don’t care what the democrat platform is.
I hate Russian commies, always have, always will.
Nearly all of the world’s problems have been caused by Russia within my lifetime either directly or indirectly.
Thank the Lord and pass the ammunition.
Another day, another Soros-funded propaganda piece.
Yawn.
Well, that certainly would explain your point of view ("I agree, 100% we have been invaded by Russian trolls")...
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“Nearly all of the world’s problems have been caused by Russia within my lifetime either directly or indirectly.”
Damned straight they have!!
It’s like 1917 all over. I’ll be very happy to see tha little Fkr’s neck stretched or to be torn to pieces by civilians in a Khaddaffi-style revolt. Horrible, manipulative little tyrant with a sophisticated PR and propaganda army.
Pravda vs pravda
—”You’d think they’d be better at it.”
Surprising isn’t it?
Most of the vatnicks around here are wanna-be bots that would love to move up to jr. troll.
The other side of the coin known as “Resistance Operating Concept” (ROC).
Of course they too are here, but they are much smoother operators.
The funny part is some of the interlopers go off on apparent ROC output like the farmer shooting down a jet with his shotgun. By design, ROC has a humor/bs edge.
Guessing that some of the ROC originate on this side of the Atlantic, but the Ukrainians are a wily lot.
“CIA here, watch out for that nasty homophobic Russian propaganda. In the meantime please make sure the LGBTQ flag is properly displayed at all times”
The Democrat platform you don’t care about is invading your southern border..
Enjoy the invasion!
What if the Russian “trolls” are telling the truth and the Biden/EU/Soros axis has gotten us into the wrong war?
Hey, don't worry - lots of people (including the Bidens' numerous Chinese & Ukrainian 'business associates') think it's the perfect war for the US to focus on...
;>)
which troll farm do you work for?
thats 5 BS leftwing propaganda craps that u posted today already ...
3 from CNN - wow LOL aren’t you original.
That “New” study of some of twitter is from February/March of 2022.
“Our dataset consists of 5,203,764 tweets, retweets, quote tweets and replies posted to Twitter between February 23rd and March 8th 2022, containing the hashtags#(I)StandWithPutin, #(I)StandWithRussia,#(I)SupportRussia, #(I)StandWithUkraine, #(I)StandWithZelenskyyand#(I)SupportUkraine[39]
Here is the link.
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2208.07038.pdf
CNN insists that it is "The Most Trusted Name In News" - maybe he actually believes that (no insult intended)...
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You don’t seem very bright about how research is conducted or how social media operates.
The study was published on August 20th 2022...its new by any standard definition of the word. The fact it examines data from Feb/Mar is a function of how the research is conducted and the need to establish a baseline for comparison.
I’d also point out that the Pro Publica article this thread is linked to is dated March 11, 2022...making this “new” study completely relevant to the headline topic.
Turns out 90% of war-bots are pro-Ukraine which makes you wonder when CNN or The Atlantic will write an expose of their origins for readers here to salivate over, although I wouldn’t hold my breath waiting...
You can thank Imperial Germany for helping to smuggle Vladimir Lenin back into Tsarist Russia during the latter days of World War I.
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