Posted on 03/26/2015 7:55:01 AM PDT by WhiskeyX
More and more, posts and commentaries on the Internet in Russia and even abroad are generated by professional trolls, many of whom receive a higher-than-average salary for perpetuating a pro-Kremlin dialogue online.
There are thousands of fake accounts on Twitter, Facebook, LiveJournal, and vKontakte, all increasingly focused on the war in Ukraine. Many emanate from Russia's most famous "troll factory," the Internet Research center, an unassuming building on St. Petersburg's Savushkina Street, which runs on a 24-hour cycle. In recent weeks, former employees have come forward to talk to RFE/RL about life inside the factory, where hundreds of people work grinding, 12-hour shifts in exchange for 40,000 rubles ($700) a month or more.
St. Petersburg blogger Marat Burkhard spent two months working at Internet Research in the department tasked with clogging the forums on Russia's municipal websites with pro-Kremlin comments. In the following interview, he describes a typical day and the type of assignments he encountered.
(Excerpt) Read more at rferl.org ...
You already posted all of that in Post No. 148. As you surely know, those comments effectively serve to change the subject away from the topic of the news story about the St. Petersburg Internet Research Agency and other Russian Internet trolls. You also should recognize and know you are being critical of non-Russians to divert attention away from how Putin’s Russian organization, the St. Petersburg Internet Research Agency is engaged in a campaign of false propaganda and disinformation. Instead of discussing the off-topic subject of the Rothschild’s and their relations with Stalin, perhaps you would care to comment on the role of Yevgeny Prigozhin and his reported ownership of the St. Petersburg Internet Research Agency. perhaps you would care to discuss the role of Yevgeny Prigozhin in disseminating the false propaganda and disinformation used to facilitate the Russian murders of the people aboard Flight MH-17, and then the liquidation of the Russian BUK crew who shot down MH-17.
Cheap insults to those who question your opinion are the way you Obama trolls operate.
I laugh because those you accuse of being Putin trolls on FR are explained by this poll.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3273682/posts
Sorry you have blinders on, but this is not very hard to understand.
Concurring bump...nothing says 'kooky' like a forum troll who takes himself seriously.
Anyone on my list - can you verify that you spoke with me on some phone calls regarding my “JCSB think tank” idea a couple years back and that you know my name ? If you take my name and search the web with “software developer” you will find my resume online.
Without disclosing my identity, can you verify for WhiskeyX that I have every appearance of not being a Russian agent unless I’ve been some kind of sleeper from birth ? Thanks in advance.
WhiskeyX -
You didn’t comment the last time I posted about the Stalin-Rothschild connection, so I reposted, so you would make another auto-bot style response.
Now you’re responding with the same bot-style spam comment that you’re using to reply to any posts that you apparently do not want to rationally discuss.
You appear to be desperate to somehow prove that I’m a Russian agent of some kind, but unfortunately for you, I’m about as American as they come.
My FReeper handle comes from one of my earliest ancestors, one of the first settlers of the Mabie family, who settled in Newington, NH (just inland from Portsmouth) in the 1600’s and operated a ferry there. The other side of my family goes back to at least the 1700’s, as a member of the family signed a document in Pequannock, NJ that predated the Revolution. I was born in Pequannock, NJ in Chilton Memorial Hospital. I was only ever outside of the US when I traveled on business to Canada and to Australia. I’ve been a registered Republican since I was old enough to vote, and my first vote for President was for Ronald Reagan in 1984, just after I graduated high school.
I post extensively on FR about Christian topics, and everyone can see from my posting history that I am a Christian in the Reformed tradition.
I have shared my identity outside of FR with a number of Freepers and communicated with them via my email account when I tried to set up a conservative think tank. That list of people that expressed in interest in the idea has 84 FReepers on it, and though I have abandoned the think tank idea, I still occasionally ping the list. I had conference calls with some of those FReepers and they know my name and thus they could easily check me out online, where they could certainly peruse people they find associated with me online and contact them directly.
I’m simply of the opinion that America should not employ her armed forces to do the bidding of elite financiers who are hostile to Americans in their unwavering support of government spending, higher taxes, imported cheap foreign labor, exporting American jobs, undermining the Christian faith, spreading immorality through the media and education, etc.
And I’m also of the opinion that basically all of US foreign policy, including Eastern Europe and the Mid East, revolves around the machinations of said elites, and American should have no part of it.
And I’m also of the opinion that our political parties are but cheezy theater to pose as a legitimate government and draw attention away from the behind-the-scenes control by the elites.
Your ancestry sounds like mine, and so does your beliefs.
Only a paid Russian troll would have spent that much time typing that.
Also...
Why would a “paid Russian Troll” make a post that points out a link between Josef Stalin and the Rothschild family ?
That kind of blows away the “communists are for the little people” propaganda.
It makes communism look like the opposite - that communism is a program of elite financiers.
Why would a paid Russian troll post something that shows the hypocrisy in Russia propaganda ?
You are a paid Russian troll or you would not have spent so much time on this thread.
You are a paid Russian troll.
I have seen you on this forum long enough to know you are a paid Russian troll.
Only a paid Russian troll would be pinging someone called Paid_Russian_Troll.
I don't even have to say it.
But I will anyways.
You are a paid Russian troll.
“Cheap insults”
I am not aware of making any “insults” to you, but I am aware of your insulting me with the baseless insult where you are falsely accusing me of being “you Obama trolls....” Given the fact I’ve always been an opponent of Obama, you are obviously using a lie to incite the kind of an argument which pro-Russian trolls prefer to use when they attempt to disrupt and derail a discussion which is critical of Putin and/or Russian activities.
“Cheap insults to those who question your opinion are the way you Obama trolls operate.”
You are simply lashing out with another incoherent bashing and ad hominem attack to stir up a dispute and once more change the subject away from the topic of the news article, which is the activities of the St. Petersburg Internet Research Agency and Russian Internet trolls in general. Perhaps you can explain how your comments are supposed to be somehow relevant to the topic about the St. Petersburg Internet Research Agency. I do not see where I have expressed a so-called opinion about much of anything in this thread, because it appears to be pretty much a matter of record that yourself and others have tenaciously posted comments about everything but the topic of the news article, the St. Petersburg Internet Research Agency and Russian Internet trolls in general. It also appears to me this habit of yours and others where you post comments defending Putin and Russia while also criticizing the United States and its allies is consistent with the activities of a pro-Russian troll and a matter of factual record rather than anyone’s opinion.
“I laugh because those you accuse of being Putin trolls on FR are explained by this poll.”
“http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3273682/posts";
There you go again making another false statement in a bid to incite dissension and change the subject away from the criticism of the St. Petersburg Internet Research Agency, Putin, and Russia. I actually have commented that I have no way of knowing whether or not any given poster is or is not a Russian behaving as a troll. I also said I can only observe whether or not the behavior of the poster is consistent with the behavior of a pro-Russian poster. A reasonably objective measure of whether or not a poster’s behavior is pro-Russian is the ratio of comments which defend or criticize the activities of Putin and Russia and the ratio of comments which are critical or defensive of the United States and its allies. In your case as in others the objective measure of such ratios is overwhelmingly pro-Russian and anti-American, and little or no subjective opinion is required to formulate an observation of such a bias on your part.
It is a mystery why you would think such a poll, concerning an alleged public opinion about which subject is perceived as the greater threat to most Americans, has anything whatsoever to do with anyone having the impression of you being or not being “Putin Trolls.” I can understand how a pro-Russian troll would use such poor English grammar to formulate such a comment in another attempt to change the subject away from the topic about the St. Petersburg Internet Research Agency and Russian internet trolls and towards a divisive argument about an unrelated poll.
You are a paid Russian troll.
Stop being a paid Russian troll.
You are a paid bead-counting Russian troll.
Each one of those dolls are a paid Russian troll.
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