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
I asked you on another thread whether you oppose only Russian internet trolling or all US trolling too.
“The US military is developing software that will let it secretly manipulate social media sites by using fake online personas to influence internet conversations and spread pro-American propaganda.
“A Californian corporation has been awarded a contract with United States Central Command (Centcom), which oversees US armed operations in the Middle East and Central Asia, to develop what is described as an “online persona management service” that will allow one US serviceman or woman to control up to 10 separate identities based all over the world.” . . .
“Once developed, the software could allow US service personnel, working around the clock in one location, to respond to emerging online conversations with any number of co-ordinated messages, blogposts, chatroom posts and other interventions. Details of the contract suggest this location would be MacDill air force base near Tampa, Florida, home of US Special Operations Command.”
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2011/mar/17/us-spy-operation-social-networks
How about when the UK assigns 1500 soldiers to the task?
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150204/07545529907/british-army-to-create-1500-strong-social-media-propaganda-force.shtml
How about when Israel pays students to do it?
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/08/14/israel-pay-students-propaganda_n_3755782.html?l
Well, I wish them luck. When they're done rehabilitating Putin, they can go to work for Charles Manson.
I think of all those innocent men, women and children who were on that commercial airliner. They were murdered by a screwball Russian president to divert attention from his domestic incompetence and failures. And, then he lied about it. The looting of the crash site was a special touch, too. What an ugly man.