JuneSim63 💚Oct 2, 2024

Fascinating long read about Russian troll factories. Founded in 2013 by Yevgeny Prigozhin, they are still going strong after his death, albeit in more fragmented forms.
Particularly relevant in the run up to the #USElection and the current wars.

#Russia #TrollFactory #Disinformation #Misinformation #SocialMedia #Covid19

I investigated millions of tweets from the Kremlin’s ‘troll factory’ and discovered classic propaganda techniques reimagined for the social media age
https://theconversation.com/i-investigated-millions-of-tweets-from-the-kremlins-troll-factory-and-discovered-classic-propaganda-techniques-reimagined-for-the-social-media-age-237712

I investigated millions of tweets from the Kremlin’s ‘troll factory’ and discovered classic propaganda techniques reimagined for the social media age

Tailored messaging, repeated exposure, and false grassroots campaigns are classic propaganda techniques, now used widely by state-back trolls.

The Conversation
Kai ArzheimerSep 16, 2024
"Planting fakes for useful idiots" #trollfactory #disinformation
https://vsquare.org/leaked-files-putin-troll-factory-russia-european-elections-factory-of-fakes/
Leaked Files from Putin's Troll Factory: How Russia Manipulated European Elections - VSquare.org

Leaked internal documents reveal how a well-coordinated Russian campaign supported far-right parties in the European Parliament elections.

VSquare.org
Show threadToni AittoniemiMay 15, 2024

And to my #NAFO fellas, i’m pretty sure #Russia’s #trollfactory industry is basically jizzing their pants over what they can do with OpenAI’s services, jailbroken or not.

Putler will pay them top dollar, not rubles, if they can poison the well of US and European societies.

They don’t even need propaganda, all they need is: ”it’ll cost too much”, ”russia is too strong”, ”it’s the global elite”, ”it’s the left” or ”it’s the jews”.

That’s all it takes if you can compensate for it in volume.

AhoMay 14, 2024

After #TV4 exposed that #SwedishDemocrats #SD (a populist anti-immigration party with roots in #neonazi organisation and led by a "half" Dane) that they been running a #trollfactory similar to #russia they now have for the first time responded to the allegation and claiming it's a fabrication from the #left

Source: https://www.svt.se/nyheter/inrikes/jimmie-akesson-en-paverkansoperation

Jimmie Åkesson: ”En pĂ„verkansoperation”

Sverigedemokraternas partiledare Jimmie Åkesson kommenterar nu Kalla faktas avslöjande i en video pĂ„ SD:s Youtubesida. – Det pĂ„gĂ„r just nu före EU-valet en gigantisk pĂ„verkansoperation frĂ„n det samlade vĂ€nsterliberala etablissemanget.

SVT Nyheter
VarietyFeb 15, 2024

Korea’s Acemaker Launching ‘Troll Factory’ at EFM, Unveils First Images (EXCLUSIVE)
#Variety #Asia #Global #MarketsFestivals #News #AcemakerMovieworks #BerlinFilmFestival #NoryangDeadlySea #TrollFactory

https://variety.com/2024/film/news/korea-acemaker-troll-factory-efm-1235910556/

Korea’s Acemaker Launching ‘Troll Factory’ at EFM

Successful young Korean studio Acemaker Movieworks is using Berlin's EFM to launching crime action film ‘Troll Factory.'

Variety
Show threadHannaSep 19, 2023

So, #ElonMusk thinks that #Putin will shut his #TrollFactory in St. Petersburg just because a few bucks per account?

Or any other authoritarian leader or state theirs?

Or leaders of #Qanon or what ever #ConspiracyTheory cult?

What a lousy and sad excuse over the matter that he just was stupid and paid too much from #Twitter and has been total shite as it's leader.

#X #Musk #SocialMedia #troll #trolls #TrollAccounts

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-66850821

Elon Musk: Social media platform X, formerly Twitter, could go behind paywall

The billionaire suggested the social media platform, now called X, could charge for use of "the system".

bikejournoFeb 14, 2023

In a new twist of #Russia's #informationwarfare, highly cynical butcherer of prisoners Jevgeni #Prigozhin claims to have founded and managed the Internet Research Agency also known as #Putin's #trollfactory.
Finally someone in Russia has admitted that this troll factory actually exists. There have been plenty of denials in the past.

The safest way to know something is true and real is when the Kremlin denies its existence.
#HuyloPutin

Greg LoweJan 23, 2023
It really bothers me how lazy some journalists have become basing entire articles on what people say on #twitter. Now, when I see a news source that does this (e.g. The Bleacher Report (in my RSS feed), it's an instant unfollow. Twitter is nothing more than a #trollfactory these days and doesn't deserve my attention...yet, here we are.
SilkesterNov 8, 2022

Buying a bunch of #blueCheckmarks for his trolls is not a deterrent to a #RussianOligarch. #ElonMusk sacked the people who worked to stem the tide, keep the #election influence at least to some extent in check.

Putin-Linked Businessman Admits U.S. Elections 'Interference' in Statement | Archived Moscow Times
https://archive.ph/xdY29

"Gentlemen, we interfered, we are interfering, and we will interfere," #Prigozhin, oligarch in the circle of Putin with a #trollFactory admits.

#politics

archive.ph

Frankie ✅Mar 24, 2022

Inside a Russian troll factory in Ghana (2020) - Working with researchers from Clemson University, CNN has found a Russian troll operation targeting American voters and, for the first time, we have confronted the people on the ground behind it and it's not where you might expect

#russia #trollfactory #misinformation

https://www.reddit.com/r/Documentaries/comments/tmn6mu/inside_a_russian_troll_factory_in_ghana_2020/

Inside a Russian troll factory in Ghana (2020) - Working with researchers from Clemson University, CNN has found a Russian troll operation targeting American voters and, for the first time, we have confronted the people on the ground behind it and it's not where you might expect [00:07:30]

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