America to Investigate Russia Infiltration of EU

The Telegraph ^ | 2/1/16 | Pete Foster

[DeathBeforeDishonor1]

The review reflects mounting concerns in Washington over Moscow’s determination to exploit European disunity in order to undermine Nato, block US missile defence programmes and revoke the punitive economic sanctions regime imposed after the annexation of Crimea. The US move came as senior British government officials told The Telegraph of growing fears that “a new cold war” was now unfolding in Europe, with Russian meddling taking on a breadth, range and depth far greater than previously thought. “It really is a new Cold War out there,” the source said, “Right across the EU we are seeing alarming evidence of Russian efforts to unpick the fabric of European unity on a whole range of vital strategic issues.” "It is a clever game.

[ETL]

Documents Show How Russia's Troll Army Hit America:

http://www.buzzfeed.com/maxseddon/documents-show-how-russias-troll-army-hit-america
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Kremlin pays internet trolls to flatter Putin
Ben Hoyle - Moscow
October 11 2013

Russian investigative journalists and bloggers have uncovered an army of internet trolls paid to pour invective on the Kremlin's opponents and heap praise on President Putin.

Posing as job applicants, the reporters discovered the government hacks working at a small company called the St Petersburg Internet Research Agency. ..."

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/world/asia/article3891720.ece

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Russian Propaganda Is Taking Over Online Comment Boards

Pamela Engel
May 4, 2014

British newspaper The Guardian notes that recently, readers have been complaining of pro-Russia propaganda being posted in the comments section of articles about Russia and Ukraine.

One reader wrote to The Guardian:

"One need only pick a Ukraine article at random, pick any point in the comments at random, and they will find themselves in a sea of incredibly aggressive and hostile users (the most obvious have accounts created since February 2014 ... but there also exist those who registered with the Guardian before the high point of the crisis) who post the most biased, inciteful [sic] pro-Kremlin, anti-western propaganda that seems as if it's taken from a template, so repetitive are the statements. Furthermore, these comments are consistently capturing inordinate numbers of 'recommends', sometimes on the order of 10 to 12 times what pro-Ukrainian comments receive."

Guardian comment moderators believe this is an orchestrated campaign.

Russia has worked hard to make people believe that the country is supporting the Russian-speaking population in Ukraine and defending those people against some type of threat. These "comment mills" play into that strategy.

Last year, The Atlantic wrote about how the Russian government apparently pays people to "sit in a room, surf the Internet, and leave sometimes hundreds of postings a day that criticize the country's opposition and promote Kremlin-backed policymakers."

This practice isn't new, according to The Atlantic. But it can stifle open discussion about political issues in Russia, giving a louder voice to those who support the Kremlin.

http://www.businessinsider.com/putin-paying-people-to-post-pro-russia-propaganda-in-comments-2014-5

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So you are not an American after all?

Many of us know exactly what you are. Why you and your Putinista pals are allowed to remain on this site is a mystery.

[familyop]

Being an American, I don’t care much for empire or its weaknesses, whether empire is communist, fascist or monarchist.

[free_life]

Russia is only a good guy to Russkies, they are the enemy to patriotic Americans.

[Trumpinator]

Why are you defending the EU? Are you one of those Euro-pee-ons?

[ETL]

Are you one of those Euro-pee-ons?

If you mean one of the eastern Europeans your hero KGB Putin pees on, no.

You're a truly sick _____, Putinator/Trumpinator.

[Trumpinator]

So you are a western Euro-pee-on? Because you don’t sound American to me.

[lavaroise]

Russia is still fighting WWII, trying to subjugate Europe. What cold war we started?

And resisting Russia and checking it is not declaring a Cold War. There is a difference between declaring war and resisting... but we know the left communists for the So iets and Vichy traitors for Hitler always called the resistance war mongers...