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So while we're paying Mueller's team to investigate Russian internet trolls...... - TechRocks - 02-18-2018 08:31 PM
.....there's this.
Quote:A 37-page indictment issued by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s team on Friday brings fresh American attention to one of the strangest elements of alleged Russian interference in the 2016 election: The Internet Research Agency (IRA), a state-sponsored “troll factory” in St. Petersburg.
But much of the information Mueller published on Friday about the agency’s efforts to influence the election had already been published last October — in an article by a Russian business magazine, RBC.
In a 4,500-word report titled “How the 'troll factory' worked the U.S. elections,” journalists Polina Rusyaeva and Andrey Zakharov offered the fullest picture yet of how the “American department” of the IRA used Facebook, Twitter and other tactics to inflame tensions ahead of the 2016 vote. The article also looked at the staffing structure of the organization and revealed details about its budget and salaries.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2018/02/18/the-russian-journalist-who-helped-uncover-election-meddling-is-confounded-by-the-mueller-indictments/?utm_term=.79f5af4197fb
I shake my headbone.
RE: So while we're paying Mueller's team to investigate Russian internet trolls...... - TechRocks - 02-18-2018 08:35 PM
Quote:I was also very surprised that they wrote private about the private messages of one girl [Irina Kaverzina]. She wrote to relatives that FBI is following them and so on. I think they read her emails. I was very surprised by that. But generally, they seem to have got people who were not careful — who used their own email accounts or registered Twitter accounts to Russian phone numbers.
God, who would be so stupid to do something like that? Oh wait, nevermind.
RE: So while we're paying Mueller's team to investigate Russian internet trolls...... - TechRocks - 02-18-2018 09:35 PM
Does no one else see the absurdity of this story?
Everyone in the MSM is all aghast and with their mouths agape, and cheering Mueller for his excellent investigative work when a friggin' business news article was published in October of last year about the troll factory in Russia, naming most of those indicted?
How many employees in the State Department? 30,000 or more? Do we not monitor what's being written in foreign newspapers and business journals? WTF are these people doing for their pay?
RE: So while we're paying Mueller's team to investigate Russian internet trolls...... - WKUYG - 02-18-2018 09:49 PM
The telling thing about that article is the comments. Usually when you scroll down to the comment section of a WP article you go where in the hell are these people coming up with this crap it's so far out there.
Usually 100 to 1 anti Trump but not this one. So that tells me its starting to sink in to those on the left that they are going to be very disappointed. Now there's a couple .."but we don't know everything" but most you can feel the sadness in their words
RE: So while we're paying Mueller's team to investigate Russian internet trolls...... - shere khan - 02-18-2018 10:01 PM
what kinda money are they getting paid to troll dimwit democrats?
asking for a friend
RE: So while we're paying Mueller's team to investigate Russian internet trolls...... - BlazerFan11 - 02-18-2018 10:27 PM
So US intelligence agencies are only about 4 months behind Russian print media?
RE: So while we're paying Mueller's team to investigate Russian internet trolls...... - TechRocks - 02-18-2018 10:31 PM
(02-18-2018 10:27 PM)BlazerFan11 Wrote: So US intelligence agencies are only about 4 months behind Russian print media?
Reassuring, ain't it.
RE: So while we're paying Mueller's team to investigate Russian internet trolls...... - Kaplony - 02-18-2018 10:31 PM
(02-18-2018 10:01 PM)shere khan Wrote: what kinda money are they getting paid to troll dimwit democrats?
asking for a friend
RE: So while we're paying Mueller's team to investigate Russian internet trolls...... - Kaplony - 02-18-2018 10:32 PM
(02-18-2018 10:27 PM)BlazerFan11 Wrote: So US intelligence agencies are only about 4 months behind Russian print media?
After you get past the initial humor it becomes kinda scary.
RE: So while we're paying Mueller's team to investigate Russian internet trolls...... - gdunn - 02-18-2018 11:42 PM
(02-18-2018 10:01 PM)shere khan Wrote: what kinda money are they getting paid to troll dimwit democrats?
asking for a friend
Wouldn't you do it for free?