You mean just like Russia has done with their legions of trolls who use fake online personas to influence internet conversations and spread pro-Russian propaganda?
Did you read the article cited? Excerpt:
“The Centcom contract stipulates that each fake online persona must have a convincing background, history and supporting details, and that up to 50 US-based controllers should be abl’ to operate false identities from their workstations “without fear of being discovered by sophisticated adversaries’.”
Further, the Buzzfeed article submitted by the original poster states:
“Definitively proving the authenticity of the documents and their authors’ ties to the Kremlin is, by the nature of the subject, not easy. The project’s cost, scale, and awkward implementation have led many observers in Russia to doubt, however, that it could have come about in any other way.”
Assuming that these private companies are financing pro-Russian troll comments, against that we have evidence of official USG and British government financing of pro-Western trolling.
The Israel government pays hundreds of college students to do pro-Israel trolling. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/students-offered-grants-if-they-tweet-pro-israeli-propaganda-8760142.html
My question to you is this: do you find propaganda “trolling” deserving of censure when it is carried out by Western governments and Israel, or only when it is done on behalf of Russia?