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Undercover reporter reveals life in a Polish troll farm

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Re: Undercover reporter reveals life in a Polish troll farm

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Seems like a poor strategy to me. You can do that sort of thing to rile up the choir, but you have to actually preach to the non-believers. An [x] shill making poor arguments the those on the fence is going to do less good for their employers than a shill making the strongest possible case for [x]. If anything, you'd assume the 'irrational' nuclear shills are actually being paid by natural gas and renewables interest…

I will give you an example from two camps, whom I have family that are both infected by: Republicans: (fox news) Illegals are taking over America and stealing your jobs! Democrats: (cnn) Conservatives are hate filled racists who hate equality! The same thing is happening online because this works with the masses.

Yeah. Those messages are aimed at the choir. They're not meant to convert.

Re: Undercover reporter reveals life in a Polish troll farm

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I visited an extraordinarily polluted steelworks city a few years ago. Even on a clear day, the air was orange, and as you entered the city you noticed the colour wash out of everything slightly, and the horizon over the estuary blurred out to a drab orange smear. I mention this, as when I mentioned it to the locals, none of them understood what I was talking about. You see, when your entire reality glows orange, tha…

That is one reason why I'd like the media to recognize the part they themselves play in all this. Just by repeating the words of the demagogues for critical reasons they still give them another platform. For example: 'Today Trump repeated a debunked hoax as though it were true' is one thing, to say 'Today Trump said "The FBI didn’t take Hillary Clinton's email server. It was taken by somebody that, I guess, it’s Crow…

I'm curious to see how deep the media rabbit hole goes with this though given what we're learning about Hannity's involvement.
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