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Russian trolls targeted ‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’ online to amplify discontent: report
The Hill ^
| 10/02/2018
| Morgan Gstalter
Posted on 10/03/2018 7:57:32 AM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas
Russian hackers reportedly targeted the release of Disney's "Star Wars: The Last Jedi" in 2017 to politicize the franchise and drum up discontent.
A new academic paper released this week from researcher Mort Bay at the University of Southern California found evidence online of "deliberate, organized political influence measures disguised as fan arguments."
Russian operators have exploited social media accounts to push political agendas, most notably during the 2016 presidential election, Bay wrote.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: chatforum; russia; starwars; thelastjedi; tvmovies
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Oh, please! Russians attacking the US by criticizing a movie???? Desperation.
To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas
They didn’t have to bother..................
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posted on
10/03/2018 7:58:52 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Q............PREPARE FOR 'SKY IS FALLING' WEEK...........................)
To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas; GraceG; BenLurkin; Army Air Corps; beaversmom; C19fan
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posted on
10/03/2018 7:59:13 AM PDT
by
KC_Lion
(If you want on First Lady Melania's, Ivanka Trump's or Sarah Palin's Ping Lists, just let me know.)
To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas
To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas
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posted on
10/03/2018 8:00:05 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas
Will this put Rotten Tomatoes into out strategic national infrastructure? Will an attack on Top Gun II be taken more seriously than actual naval confrontations in the South China Sea?
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posted on
10/03/2018 8:01:15 AM PDT
by
KarlInOhio
(Leave the job, leave the clearance. It should be the same rule for the Swamp as for everyone else.)
To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas
“The Mossaid did it..!” is a popular one in the Middle East. I can get ridiculous, though; one time some Iranian guy lost one of his shoes. Yeah, he blamed THAT one The Mossad.
But hey, people HERE aren’t that stupid.
Right?
Right...........?
???
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posted on
10/03/2018 8:01:30 AM PDT
by
gaijin
To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas
Or maybe it’s just that even the Russians saw how horrible that movie was.
To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas
THE RUSSIAN ARE COMING!!! No need for Russian trolls as plenty of verified Star Wars fans whom revolted over “The Last Jedi”.
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posted on
10/03/2018 8:02:00 AM PDT
by
C19fan
To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas
maybe they were Iranian trolls spoofing Russian IP addresses?
To: Red Badger
Apparently, the media should hire Russians as Movie Critics, they’re better than American critics.
To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas
What ruined that piece of crap was "deliberate, organized political influence measures disguised as" a Star Wars movie, not Russian trolls.
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posted on
10/03/2018 8:02:17 AM PDT
by
Rashputin
(Jesus Christ doesn't evacuate His troops, He leads them to victory !!)
To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas
The movie sucked.
If those “Russian trolls” had to watch “The Last Jedi” as part of their little scheme I would say they have already been punished enough.
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posted on
10/03/2018 8:02:50 AM PDT
by
Junk Silver
("It's a little hard to herd people onto trains when they're shooting at you." SirLurkedalot)
To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas
In other words, Russians who saw the movie didn’t like it. Those trolls!
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posted on
10/03/2018 8:03:29 AM PDT
by
Prolixus
(In all seriousness:)
To: dfwgator
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posted on
10/03/2018 8:07:31 AM PDT
by
ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas
(Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. Bach tells you what it's like to be the universe)
To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas
More like a movie franchise owner claiming all the bad reviews and displeased fan comments are because, Russians.
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posted on
10/03/2018 8:07:50 AM PDT
by
Rebelbase
(Consensus isn't science.)
To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas
LOL. If the evil Russians didn’t troll the movie and whip up those stupid American conservative yahoos against it, the movie would be doing fine and everyone would love how Kathleen Kennedy has completely remade the franchise in a banal, PC way. (Although in Kennedy’s defense, I thought the second three movies were pretty horrible too.)
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posted on
10/03/2018 8:08:18 AM PDT
by
Opinionated Blowhard
(When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas
To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas
Saying Russians cast the Last Jedi as a bad movie is like saying Russians cast Hillary as a bad candidate.
It is what it is, there’s nothing Russian to it.
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posted on
10/03/2018 8:09:17 AM PDT
by
DannyTN
To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas
Well, if anything justified WAR with Russia, this is it.
Vlad, you do NOT mess with our entertainment and Hollywood elites, or their propaganda business!
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posted on
10/03/2018 8:10:30 AM PDT
by
PGR88
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