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8/14/2023 11:09:42 PM
Terrorist 45 goes down again.

5/19/2023 5:34:43 AM
Tribulations of GOP Ineptitude

5/4/2023 10:44:32 PM
13 terrorists

5/10/2022 10:07:12 PM
Elon Musk is a cult leader's dream

3/10/2022 12:06:01 PM
How democracy haters manipulate society

2/24/2022 3:41:25 AM
Republicans root for Putin while Biden leads the good guys

12/23/2021 10:36:57 AM
Well it took Trump a year too long but he's finally gone fullblown pro-vaxx.

5/7/2021 12:56:25 PM
the new Foxmania defense

1/3/2021 7:16:36 PM
Election cheating revealed

11/18/2020 1:35:07 PM
250,000

11/3/2020 11:19:45 AM
I sure am in the mood for an orange beatdown.

10/12/2020 11:59:46 AM
Amy Covid Barrett

10/3/2020 10:54:54 PM
the coolest catch phrase of 2020

8/28/2020 8:19:37 AM
the White House is no longer the People's house

8/4/2020 10:52:59 PM
160,290

7/30/2020 3:44:52 PM
American President upset that Fauci is more popular than him.

6/29/2020 7:37:42 AM
Russia Bounty story another Trump disgrace

6/21/2020 3:36:02 AM
Trump's rally an incredible flopola

6/1/2020 9:16:17 AM
Cowardly Trump retreats to underground bunker, White House lights turned out

5/31/2020 2:21:23 AM
The police are way fucking out of control in the US

5/26/2020 1:00:01 PM
100,000

5/23/2020 10:40:54 AM
Trump killed my sister.

4/28/2020 10:04:30 PM
Would you drink Clorox cause Trump says so?

4/28/2020 9:57:56 PM
the GOP grilled Hillary for 11 hours for 4 dead in Benghazi

4/3/2020 6:20:25 AM
No Trump, No Crisis

3/29/2020 2:10:40 PM
Unbelievably, Trump sent the supplies we need to China in February

3/23/2020 8:29:17 AM
Rand Paul gets TrumpVirus after his dad calls it a hoax.

3/19/2020 9:10:03 AM
Dems will win easily in November

3/7/2020 1:56:47 PM
Now what?

2/27/2020 8:43:24 AM
coronavirus

2/5/2020 2:15:54 AM
Brian Wilson boycotts the Beach Boys over Trump Jr. event.

1/21/2020 10:00:22 PM
Trials where witnesses are not allowed.

12/18/2019 8:39:18 PM
Merry Impeachmas

12/12/2019 2:48:53 PM
Trump's dummies so jealous they photoshopped Trump's head on Greta Thunberg's body

11/20/2019 9:08:56 AM
he's guilty

10/25/2019 7:35:51 AM
Bad Faith Barr

10/17/2019 9:33:53 AM
sucks that we surrendered in Syria

1/26/2019 8:31:02 PM
right wing takeover

3/1/2018 2:37:06 AM
Trump goes against the 2nd amendment

2/14/2018 10:21:18 PM
18 school shootings so far this year in US

2/3/2018 2:33:41 PM
One Major Party now

1/8/2018 7:52:39 PM
the truth about Trump's economy

12/20/2017 10:17:35 AM
The President

12/14/2017 8:12:57 AM
Who put 2 million fake comments on the web against net neutrality?

12/14/2017 8:12:56 AM
Who put 2 million fake comments on the web against net neutrality?

12/7/2017 12:37:06 PM
Franken got lynched.

12/1/2017 12:38:19 PM
It's over, Rover

11/22/2017 4:37:39 PM
Should pedophiles be in the Senate?

11/4/2017 12:12:07 PM
Hillary haters are almost as dopey as Trump lovers.

10/31/2017 12:12:01 AM
Trump is sinking

10/30/2017 8:09:55 AM
Happy Mueller Day!

10/26/2017 11:24:19 PM
SCROTUS gives me flatulence

10/24/2017 6:44:17 PM
Corker and Flake

10/20/2017 10:07:04 AM
Putin tells Americans to respect Trump

10/19/2017 1:04:14 AM
Niger, the real Benghazi

10/11/2017 3:44:23 PM
SCROTUS says this story by NBC news is fake, who do you believe?

10/6/2017 1:24:02 AM
new Las Vegas video shows another shooter on ground

9/28/2017 2:58:55 AM
Those who don't think Russia is evil, wake up!

9/23/2017 3:41:34 PM
Won't it be cool if the whole NFL kneels at the anthem tomorrow?

9/23/2017 3:17:08 PM
Trump goes against Colin Kaeperenick's free speech

9/22/2017 2:56:42 PM
GOP congressmen tells hurricane victims that god is telling them to move

9/20/2017 4:21:22 PM
Russians used facebook to push Trump rallies in 17 US cities

9/19/2017 8:24:20 AM
Here's how Trump/Russia is going to end..

9/18/2017 12:22:19 AM
Trump admin going after free speech again

9/16/2017 3:56:34 PM
hahaha did you see this? Trump had a "Mother of all Rallies"

9/16/2017 10:18:17 AM
Obama gets the credit for FEMA's recent performance

9/15/2017 8:38:14 AM
the great state of California passes a law requiring presidential candidates to show their taxes

9/15/2017 2:51:41 AM
Trump called antifa 'the other side"

9/15/2017 12:45:53 AM
I had forgotten what a president should sound like til seeing HIllary on Rachel tonight.

9/14/2017 9:39:26 PM
"A president who wanted to be a president of all of the country would be investigating what the Russians did to us."

9/13/2017 10:11:05 PM
For who has Trump made America great again?

9/13/2017 3:07:31 PM
Conservatives attacking free speech again

9/13/2017 7:40:00 AM
What's your view on Woody Allen?

9/13/2017 12:04:21 AM
Russia used facebook to organize anti-immigration rallies on US soil!

9/12/2017 3:29:11 PM
The Trump/Russia connection is now very simple.

9/11/2017 9:28:42 PM
Pope says it's stupid to deny climate change

9/11/2017 5:00:30 PM
an interesting idea on how to solve the North Korea issue

9/10/2017 3:19:41 AM
Trey Gowdy is a horseshit specialist

9/8/2017 10:34:35 PM
US pulls back surveillance of ISIS convey at Russia's request

9/6/2017 11:49:29 PM
Trump stomps on Gomer Ryan's wishes to embrace Pelosi and Schumer!

9/5/2017 5:32:52 PM
58% think dreamers should be allowed to stay

9/4/2017 8:14:28 AM
I bet you guys are anti-DACA

9/3/2017 12:33:05 AM
Who was the clown that said Trump's threats got N. Korea to back down?

9/2/2017 7:03:25 PM
wet dreams about secretive unhinged liberals!

9/2/2017 12:07:25 AM
Trump, the EPA, and the explosions caused by Harvey

9/1/2017 3:33:38 PM
deja vu

9/1/2017 9:30:33 AM
Don't worry about N. Korea anymore

8/30/2017 2:57:08 PM
Trump's 3 biggest lies about the Russian scandal

8/29/2017 10:24:21 PM
What a crowd! What a turnout! What a piece of shit!

8/27/2017 10:14:09 PM
Trump flubbed up Hurricane Harvey

8/26/2017 4:34:59 PM
Need a job? US Gov't hiring racists!

8/26/2017 5:04:45 AM
A racist pardons a racist.

8/24/2017 12:51:47 PM
The guy holding the 'Blacks for Trump' sign is a faker.

8/24/2017 12:20:34 PM
Exxon knowingly deceived public for 40 years about climate change

8/23/2017 6:00:29 PM
Does the media favor the right wing?

8/23/2017 12:20:35 PM
Our failing POTUS went off the rails again last night in Arizona

8/22/2017 11:58:43 AM
Abe Lincoln was a Republican.

8/21/2017 10:20:52 PM
Trump letting Generals call shots.

8/20/2017 9:51:20 PM
hey Larree

8/19/2017 10:45:04 AM
Where is the violence coming from?

8/18/2017 7:00:42 PM
on facebook banning the confederate flag

8/18/2017 5:48:37 PM
Bye Bye Bannon you wicked witch of filth!

8/18/2017 4:35:46 PM
hey Fonts

8/15/2017 9:14:46 PM
Olbermann says it best

8/15/2017 3:05:42 PM
If you think this nazi crap isn't permeating the US, check this story out.

8/15/2017 2:33:51 PM
Larree thinks those protesting against the hate demonstration in Charlottesville are demanding communism for all

8/15/2017 2:06:18 PM
Our failing POTUS has been a racist his entire life

8/13/2017 11:06:29 AM
"The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.' - JFK

8/13/2017 10:02:42 AM
White terrorism

8/12/2017 1:14:56 AM
Why political forums get such a bad name

8/10/2017 8:06:44 AM
Here's your wonderful Republican party

8/8/2017 10:32:08 PM
POTUS plays nuclear chicken with N. Korea

8/4/2017 9:37:02 AM
Trump will have spent 3 times as many vacation days as Obama did total by August

8/3/2017 6:08:42 AM
Tillerson just not using the 80 million dollars given to State to counter Russian propaganda

7/31/2017 8:48:40 AM
I'm sure you guys think Trump telling the police to be rougher on suspects was a positive, right?

7/31/2017 7:07:45 AM
mcCartney recording new song about Trump

7/25/2017 12:06:57 PM
Boy Scouts change motto from Be Prepared to Be a Liar

7/14/2017 1:43:24 PM
hey Larree

7/11/2017 4:58:38 AM
well collusion has been proven.

6/24/2017 7:24:51 AM
This goes out to the various Trump apologists here

6/22/2017 9:33:51 PM
The racial overtones involved in wiping out Obamacare.

6/14/2017 5:14:53 AM
US Government is such an embarrassment, my god.

6/8/2017 1:04:11 PM
McCain was a real dumbfuck today

5/16/2017 7:58:34 AM
Time's Person of the Year this year may turn out to be a surprise choice

5/16/2017 6:22:42 AM
The Russian Troll Army

5/12/2017 7:18:31 PM
This forum was never intended to be for chickenshits.

5/11/2017 7:55:34 PM
Trump has compromised every single investigation on Russia

5/11/2017 6:34:00 PM
You guys are basically missing the plot here.

5/3/2017 11:42:01 AM
Gowdy admits he falsified Hillary document on Benghazi

4/28/2017 9:09:21 AM
I thought it would be easier

4/28/2017 8:34:09 AM
If the government worked at all the traitor would be out already

4/26/2017 10:20:27 PM
How is this traitor scumbag Flynn not in prison?

4/26/2017 12:59:39 AM
The wall is and was a stupid idea and it's never going to happen.

4/23/2017 9:06:11 AM
So how's Trump doing?

4/21/2017 3:07:52 PM
CSNY could reunite because they hate Trump more than they hate each other

4/15/2017 11:04:00 PM
The best proof you'll ever see that the 2 parties are not the same thing

4/9/2017 6:30:36 PM
the Obama bashing around this Syria thing is absurd.

4/9/2017 4:23:01 PM
Politics is for pussies on facebook who won't stray from their own friend list apparently

4/7/2017 3:56:08 AM
POTUS succeeds with war distraction

3/28/2017 5:01:25 PM
Paul Ryan is Gomer Satan.

3/26/2017 10:47:19 PM
When will Trump take any responsibility for anything, he's a blame machine?



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5/16/2017 6:22:42 AM

The Russian Troll Army

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_brigades

The web brigades (Russian: ???-???????), also known in English media as Russia's troll army,[1] are state-sponsored anonymous Internet political commentators and trolls linked to the Russian government. Participants report that they are organized into teams and groups of commentators that participate in Russian and international political blogs and Internet forums using sockpuppets and large-scale orchestrated trolling and disinformation campaigns to promote pro-Putin and pro-Russian propaganda.[2][3][4][5] It has also been found that Wikipedia articles were targeted by Russian internet propaganda activities.[6][7][8]

The earliest documented allegations of the existence of "web brigades" appear to be in the April 2003 Vestnik Online article "The Virtual Eye of Big Brother" by French journalist Anna Polyanskaya (a former assistant to assassinated Russian politician Galina Starovoitova[9]) and two other authors, Andrey Krivov and Ivan Lomako. The authors claim that up to 1998, contributions to forums on Russian Internet sites (Runet) predominantly reflected liberal and democratic values, but after 2000, the vast majority of contributions reflected totalitarian values. This sudden change was attributed to the appearance of teams of pro-Russian commenters who appeared be organized by the Russian state security service.[10][11][12][13] According to the authors, about 70% of Russian Internet posters were of generally liberal views prior to 1998–1999, while a surge of "antidemocratic" posts (about 60–80%) suddenly occurred at many Russian forums in 2000. This could also be a reflection to the fact that access to Internet among the general Russian population soared during this time, which was until then accessible only to some sections of the society.

In January 2012, a hacktivist group calling itself the Russian arm of Anonymous published a massive collection of email allegedly belonging to former and present leaders of the pro-Kremlin youth organization Nashi (including a number of government officials).[14] Journalists who investigated the leaked information found that the pro-Kremlin movement had engaged in a range of activities including paying commentators to post content and hijacking blog ratings in the fall of 2011.[15][16] The e-mails indicated that members of the "brigades" were paid 85 rubles (about 3 US dollars) or more per comment, depending on whether the comment received replies. Some were paid as much as 600,000 roubles (about US $21,000) for leaving hundreds of comments on negative press articles on the internet, and were presented with iPads. A number of high-profile bloggers were also mentioned as being paid for promoting Nashi and government activities. The Federal Youth Agency, whose head (and the former leader of Nashi) Vasily Yakemenko was the highest-ranking individual targeted by the leaks, refused to comment on authenticity of the e-mails.[14][17]

In 2013, a Freedom House report stated that 22 of 60 countries examined have been using paid pro-government commentators to manipulate online discussions, and that Russia has been at the forefront of this practice for several years, along with China and Bahrain.[18][19] In the same year, Russian reporters investigated the St. Petersburg Internet Research Agency, which employs at least 400 people. They found that the agency covertly hired young people as "Internet operators" paid to write pro-Kremlin postings and comments, smearing opposition leader Alexei Navalny and U.S. politics and culture.[20][21]

“ Each commenter was to write no less than 100 comments a day, while people in the other room were to write four postings a day, which then went to the other employees whose job was to post them on social networks as widely as possible.[20] ”
Some Russian opposition journalists state that such practices create a chilling effect on the few independent media outlets that remain in the country.[19]

Further investigations were performed by Novaya Gazeta and Institute of Modern Russia in 2014–15, inspired by the peak of activity of the pro-Russian brigades during the war in Donbass and assassination of Boris Nemtsov.[22][23][24][25] The effort of using "troll armies" to promote Putin's policies is a multimillion-dollar operation.[26] According to The Guardian investigation the flood of pro-Russian comments is part of a coordinated "informational-psychological war operation".[27] One Twitter bot network was documented to use more than 20,500 fake Twitter accounts to spam negative comments after the assassination of Boris Nemtsov and events related to the war in Donbass.[28][29]


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