Russian Trolls

smurfjed

I wonder how many of these we have had in the various discussions regarding Ukraine and the MH aircraft crash...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3015996/How-Russia-s-troll-factory-runs-thousands-fake-Twitter-Facebook-accounts-flood-social-media-pro-Putin-propaganda.html

Kenny Logins

Anyone else think this was going to be a set of trolls of decreasing size placed one inside the other?

BTW

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Guy:Incognito

Wonder do the egg cups in the canteen have a hammer and sickle on them? Anyone know about Putins egg cups? Anyone? Anyone?

Banjo String

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkTb9GP9lVI

Sir Osis of Liver.

biko

I didn't click the link in the OP so I don't know what's going on here but will offer an opinion anyway.

"Everyone should just get along"

Guy:Incognito

Sir Osis of Liver. wrote: »

Troll Song]

Aw tough luck,, so close.

Banjo String

Great minds sir osis!

Sir Osis of Liver.

Sorry Banjo.

Play both videos 5 seconds apart for an excellent remix.

Banjo String

Sir Osis of Liver. wrote: »

Sorry Banjo.

Play both videos 5 seconds apart for an excellent remix.

I'd thank you twice if I could.

nokia69

smurfjed wrote: »

I wonder how many of these we have had in the various discussions regarding Ukraine and the MH aircraft crash...

anyone know the number for the Russian embassy, if everyone else is getting paid then I want some too

show me the money Vlad

My name is URL

Not really surprising is it? The US and UK (along with a load of others) have similar units spreading propaganda online

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/77th_Brigade_(United_Kingdom)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Threat_Research_Intelligence_Group

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Earnest_Voice

JONJO THE MISER

I hear Russian trolls like to have there egg in a cup in the morning.

Armistice

I see a video of people running into an office. I see a video of people working on computers in an office. I see a daily mail article quoting an "Insider".

I see no evidence. I've been called a Putinista (I don't support Putin) here when I mentioned I have family in Crimea and Ukraine (I'm Irish) who tell a different version of events.

How convenient a tactic to just label everyone who disagrees with you or says anything contrary to the mainstream media portrayal a paid shill. Sure lets just not have debates or opinions at all.

Lib-tatorship here we come. Very reminiscent of Soviet propaganda ironically.

Buona Fortuna

I only clicked on this because I thought it was russion dolls

Gatling

Armistice wrote: »

I see a video of people running into an office. I see a video of people working on computers in an office. I see a daily mail article quoting an "Insider".

I see no evidence. I've been called a Putinista (I don't support Putin) here when I mentioned I have family in Crimea and Ukraine (I'm Irish) who tell a different version of events.

How convenient a tactic to just label everyone who disagrees with you or says anything contrary to the mainstream media portrayal a paid shill. Sure lets just not have debates or opinions at all.

Lib-tatorship here we come. Very reminiscent of Soviet propaganda ironically.

Ah sure we all have uncles , brothers and aunties and uncles telling us russia good , ukraine bad

where the facts are putin is a nutcase who will litteally do anything the wants as long as his corrupt hands are in control of a nuclear arsenal

Armistice

Gatling wrote: »

Ah sure we all have uncles , brothers and aunties and uncles telling us russia good , ukraine bad

where the facts are putin is a nutcase who will litteally do anything the wants as long as his corrupt hands are in control of a nuclear arsenal

You confuse facts with your opinion. The media; both mainstream and social media, has been far far far more supporting of anti Russian sentiment. I don't think Putin is a nutcase. I think he is a shrewd and effective leader. I don't agree with his policies however.

Pro American republican types like yourself always try to paint their adversaries as "Madmen". Here is a news flash, America is not morally exceptional.

circadian

When did America suddenly come into the topic?

Gatling

circadian wrote: »

When did America suddenly come into the topic?

The art of troll deflection blame America .
American's started this America did this and America did that.

Armistice

Gatling wrote: »

The art of troll deflection blame America .
American's started this America did this and America did that.

I am not trolling. I am making a comparison between American republican types and you.

You're never far away when Russia is mentioned.Always ready to step in and start undermining people who don't share your views.

In fact you fit the bill to be a pro nato troll perfectly.

circadian

So if you question Russia at all then you are automatically an American Republican type?

thickhead

Kenny Logins wrote:

Anyone else think this was going to be a set of trolls of decreasing size placed one inside the other?

Russian nesting dolls.

Son Of A Vidic

smurfjed wrote: »

I wonder how many of these we have had in the various discussions regarding Ukraine and the MH aircraft crash...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3015996/How-Russia-s-troll-factory-runs-thousands-fake-Twitter-Facebook-accounts-flood-social-media-pro-Putin-propaganda.html

I'm always quite skeptical of anything coming from The Beano The Mail. But on the topic of State sponsored trolling, nobody does it better than the good old Zionist regime in Israel. They implemented these trolling tactics years ago on an industrial scale, led by their former social media guru and complete fruitcake Danny Seaman. Indeed, one could be forgiven for thinking that half the Israeli embassy staff joined Boards.ie last summer. New accounts were opening and closing in the blink of an eye. As they tried to defend the turkey shoot on civilians in Gaza. The poor oul Mods were exhausted. So who knows, perhaps the Russians have learned something from their social media approach and took a leaf out of their book.

Roger Hassenforder

Corvus Maximus wrote: »

I'm always quite skeptical of anything coming from The Beano The Mail. But on the topic of State sponsored trolling, nobody does it better than the good old Zionist regime in Israel. They implemented these trolling tactics years ago on an industrial scale, led by their former social media guru and complete fruitcake Danny Seaman. Indeed, one could be forgiven for thinking that half the Israeli embassy staff joined Boards.ie last summer. New accounts were opening and closing in the blink of an eye. As they tried to defend the turkey shoot on civilians in Gaza. The poor oul Mods were exhausted. So who knows, perhaps the Russians have learned something from their social media approach and took a leaf out of their book.

only took 23 posts...

Gatling

Armistice wrote: »

I am not trolling. I am making a comparison between American republican types and you.

You're never far away when Russia is mentioned.Always ready to step in and start undermining people who don't share your views.

In fact you fit the bill to be a pro nato troll perfectly.

I hate Putin's bully boy corrupt bigotry .
He who demands he personally gets to decide the fate of the Ukrainian people .

I'm pro Democracy and pro Freedom pro European .
With a intolerance to bullys,
ukraine has a right to choose it's own destiny not what putin or other russians want

Areyouwell

Roger Hassenforder wrote: »

only took 23 posts...

For what? The truth? The other post had context and was completely relevant to the subject matter. Or basically everything your post there wasn't.

IrlMonk

Sir Osis of Liver. wrote: »

Sorry Banjo.

Play both videos 5 seconds apart for an excellent remix.

Hahaha.... good mix @ 11secs too :pac:

KomradeBishop

Ha - that's pretty funny, the article information is sourced from the 'Radio Free Europe' US/CIA troll/propaganda station, which has been putting out propaganda in Europe all through the cold war up to the present:
http://pando.com/2015/03/01/internet-privacy-funded-by-spooks-a-brief-history-of-the-bbg/

Hell, Snowden even released as part of his leaks, guides from the NSA on precisely how to control discussion in online social media including forums.

It should be blindingly obvious to people by now, that major political parties and well funded US-think-tanks, are putting out scores of these kinds of online trolls all across the Internet, and it's naive in the extreme to think that only Russia-related topics are affected.

Israel v. Palestine, Russia/Ukraine, North Korea (I've seen a NK propaganda poster put out veiled death threats right here on Boards a while back - seriously), most economic topics, probably even some of the extreme end of the MRA stuff - I'd not be surprised if there is paid soapboxing across all of those topics (or at least, people being used as 'useful idiots' to promote a certain view on those topics).

Junkyard Tom

'We' do it too as has been pointed out. It is said that propagandising the public is even more important in freer countries because you can't just be liquidated like they do in totalitarian countries.

Udo Ulfkotte, a former editor of one of Germany's biggest newspapers, recently admitted that the CIA routinely bribe western journalists to put out pro-Washington/US propaganda.

According to Ulfkotte, the CIA and German intelligence (BND) bribe journalists in Germany to write pro-NATO propaganda articles, and it is well understood that one may lose their media job if they fail to comply with the pro-Western agenda. In 2014, Ulfkotte published Bought Journalists ("Gekaufte Journalisten"), in which he reveals that the CIA and other secret services pay money to journalists to report a particular story in a certain light.

wikipedia.org/wiki/Udo_Ulfkotte

The Diabolical Monocle

flask containing a sausage.



although in fairness there are political robots on here of all persuasions.

predd

It's well-known that Sinn Fein uses mailing lists to direct its online battalions of useful idiots to news article comment sections and internet message boards.

Smiles35

It's more scary than propaganda though. If you disagree your ip/mobile get's put on a list.

predd

A few years ago I signed up on Sinn Fein's website. It wasn't long before I was getting text messages with links to threads on Boards and other discussion sites. We were encouraged to push the official SF party policy in these discussions and were given a list of talking points and advice on how to steer a discussion in a particular direction. The phenomenon of the "Shinnerbot" is very real. A useful idiot who is incapable of independent thought and is only able to parrot carefully delivered script. I've stayed clear of SF ever since.

Smiles35

predd wrote: »

A few years ago I signed up on Sinn Fein's website. It wasn't long before I was getting text messages with links to threads on Boards and other discussion sites. We were encouraged to push the official SF party policy in these discussions and were given a list of talking points and advice on how to steer a discussion in a particular direction. The phenomenon of the "Shinnerbot" is very real. A useful idiot who is incapable of independent thought and is only able to parrot carefully delivered script. I've stayed clear of SF ever since.

I belive ya. Best stear clear of Ukraine now too.

FTA69

predd wrote: »

A few years ago I signed up on Sinn Fein's website. It wasn't long before I was getting text messages with links to threads on Boards and other discussion sites. We were encouraged to push the official SF party policy in these discussions and were given a list of talking points and advice on how to steer a discussion in a particular direction. The phenomenon of the "Shinnerbot" is very real. A useful idiot who is incapable of independent thought and is only able to parrot carefully delivered script. I've stayed clear of SF ever since.

Never happened.

newmug

Why are red cards being handed out for mentioning, eh, the things that were mentioned in the red-carded posts above?

Cienciano

newmug wrote: »

Why are red cards being handed out for mentioning, eh, the things that were mentioned in the red-carded posts above?

I'm afraid to post on this thread tbh!

Cienciano

FTA69 wrote: »

Never happened.

Sign up and see for yourself.

Timberrrrrrrr

newmug wrote: »

Why are red cards being handed out for mentioning, eh, the things that were mentioned in the red-carded posts above?

I think their posts were a (not very) thinly veiled dig at a poster using words from that posters name.

KomradeBishop

predd wrote: »

A few years ago I signed up on Sinn Fein's website. It wasn't long before I was getting text messages with links to threads on Boards and other discussion sites. We were encouraged to push the official SF party policy in these discussions and were given a list of talking points and advice on how to steer a discussion in a particular direction. The phenomenon of the "Shinnerbot" is very real. A useful idiot who is incapable of independent thought and is only able to parrot carefully delivered script. I've stayed clear of SF ever since.

It's funny how the rabidly anti-SF constant-re-reg posters, are so well versed in online forum propaganda techniques, that they've even got the 'divert, attack, ridicule' description coined for it - the exact same tactic many such posters have themselves been using over the years, across many economic/political topics.

The narrative on such topics is well-controlled on Boards, has been for years, and it's not the SF posters who have control there...

tomwaterford

predd wrote: »

A few years ago I signed up on Sinn Fein's website. It wasn't long before I was getting text messages with links to threads on Boards and other discussion sites. We were encouraged to push the official SF party policy in these discussions and were given a list of talking points and advice on how to steer a discussion in a particular direction. The phenomenon of the "Shinnerbot" is very real. A useful idiot who is incapable of independent thought and is only able to parrot carefully delivered script. I've stayed clear of SF ever since.

This didn't happen or else it's a bogus website you signed upto as I know someone who happens to work in the IT end for Sinn Fein From years ago when I lived in dublin (also posts around the motor forum usually) and for rather obvious reasons (think troubles)....they take personal security details of its very seriously

NotASheeple

Roger Hassenforder wrote: »

only took 23 posts...

The most appropriate reply to that is probably a :rolleyes:.

The_Valeyard

Gatling wrote: »

The art of troll deflection blame America .
American's started this America did this and America did that.

To be fair, during the Bush years.......they did a sh't load of this and heavy bombing of that.

tara73

newmug wrote: »

Why are red cards being handed out for mentioning, eh, the things that were mentioned in the red-carded posts above?

isn't it the case this posters got their red card in a different thread but it's showing up in every other thread too?