[BenLurkin]

ping

[05 Mustang GT Rocks]

There are a few of them also here. I expect them to show up any second now.

[jimmygrace]

Thanks for coming forward and may the angels watch your back.

[mac_truck]

How much do you get paid to peddle the US State Dept. version of events?

[05 Mustang GT Rocks]

Ha, ha, it took all of 15 minutes and the first one showed up as post number 6.

[free_life]

They are among us!

[lormand]

We have one here at Freerepublic. His/her name is "Paid_Russian_Troll"

The account is allowed to fester here, and is only used to post pro-KGB propaganda.

[PieterCasparzen]

I'm the one in the picture Sam.

[RedStateRocker]

Fascinating.
Thanks!

[Grzegorz 246]

“Work begins after an initial post, written by a troll in a different department, is published on the LiveJournal social-networking site under the username flcrbgrjn. The post argues that foreign mercenaries are fighting on the side of Ukrainian soldiers and links to a video that purports to show two American soldiers in the southeastern Ukrainian city of Mariupol.”

LOL ! Isn't it the same stuff FRussian scum was spreading around here several weeks ago ?

[tcrlaf]

Does he work for SEIU/Obama-for-America in the off-season???

[minnesota_bound]

The democrat party must have the same setup. The trolls come out when ever there is another democrat scandal from one of their politicians or an election is near.

[tcrlaf]

Internet “Troll” operations are a fact of Online life now. EVERYBODY has them, firms in DC make tons of money from it pushing Democrats. Some aren’t even human.

Friends, and Influence, for Sale Online

Whoever said, “Money can’t buy you friends,” clearly hasn’t been on the Internet recently.

This past week, I bought 4,000 new followers on Twitter for the price of a cup of coffee. I picked up 4,000 friends on Facebook for the same $5 and, for a few dollars more, had half of them like a photo I shared on the site.

If I had been willing to shell out $3,700, I could have made one million — yes, a million — new friends on Instagram. For an extra $40, 10,000 of them would have liked one of my sunset photos.

Retweets. Likes. Favorites. Comments. Upvotes. Page views. You name it; they’re for sale on websites like Swenzy, Fiverr and countless others.

Many of my new friends live outside the United States, mostly in India, Bangladesh, Romania and Russia — and they are not exactly human. They are bots, or lines of code. But they were built to behave like people on social media sites
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/04/20/friends-and-influence-for-sale-online/?_r=0

[sauropod]

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[tcrlaf]

Strategic Manipulation of Internet Opinion Forums: Implications for Consumers and Firms

Management Science Magazine
Vol. 52, No. 10 (Oct., 2006)
http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/20110630?sid=21106252669643&uid=3739656&uid=2&uid=4&uid=3739256

[golux]

THIS "PAID RUSSIAN TROLL" STORY ONE MORE EXEMPLE OF RIDICULOUS LIES PERPETRATED AGAINST PRESIDENT PUTIN WHO IS SO GOOD PRESIDENT AND IS ONLY FOR MAKING MATUSHKA MOTHER RUSSIA GREAT AGAIN. I FROM FARM IN BOSTON MASSACHUSSETTS IN AMERICA AND WE SEE LOTS OF ANTI RUSSIAN PROPAGANDA ALWAYS. GOD BLESS AMERICA, AND ALL MY FAMILIES AND FRIENDS WHO LIVE HERE AND ALSO GOD BLESS OUR FRIENDS IN RUSSIA AND MAY EVERYONE ALWAYS DO WHAT PUTIN SAY! GO OBAMA!

[liberalh8ter]

Thanks Obama, for ‘gifting’ the Internet to the world.

[BeadCounter]

Wall Street Journal, the Guardian, they’ve all reported this. The Putin supporters are so abrasive, it’s hard to match their dinginess.

I wonder if this plant in St. Petersburg has equipment, computers to disguise the trolls location.

[samtheman]

amazing, but not surprising

[McGruff]

I swear some of you have Putin Derangement Syndrome. With the world falling apart you are all worried about Russian Internet trolls.