Some posters here fit this description, except that the ones here do this willingly, and without financial compensation. :lol: As is evidenced by this article, Mueller is not doing so well. Those damn Russians!
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Putin was 'good' and Obama was 'bad': Former Russian trolls reveal online work to create 'fake news'
Employees at nondescript St. Petersburg office building wrote stories or posted comments
- Chris Brown, CBC News
When St. Petersburg journalism grad Vitaly Bespalov answered an online ad for a writer in 2014, he thought the gig at Russia's Internet Research Agency might help his fledgling career.
As he quickly learned, what he really signed up for was a job as a paid internet troll.
"They pose as people who are not really them," he told CBC News at his apartment in St. Petersburg. "By the second or third day, it was clear where I had landed and what this was actually."
Last month, U.S. special prosecutor Robert Mueller indicted 13 Russian nationals who worked at the so-called "troll factory" in St. Petersburg, accusing them of interfering in the 2016 U.S. election. The allegations include fabricating news and using false identities to sow discord in the United States ahead of the vote.
Bespalov left long before that period — after just three months on the job.
"It was really bothering me what I was doing. I knew I had stayed to get more information [on the operation] but this feeling of disgust stayed with me."
He says he's sharing his story now with the hope that it makes people more aware of how the "fake news" business works and in the hope that the operation will be shut down.
The rest here:
Putin was 'good' and Obama was 'bad': Former Russian trolls reveal online work to create 'fake news' - World - CBC News
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Putin was 'good' and Obama was 'bad': Former Russian trolls reveal online work to create 'fake news'
Employees at nondescript St. Petersburg office building wrote stories or posted comments
- Chris Brown, CBC News
When St. Petersburg journalism grad Vitaly Bespalov answered an online ad for a writer in 2014, he thought the gig at Russia's Internet Research Agency might help his fledgling career.
As he quickly learned, what he really signed up for was a job as a paid internet troll.
"They pose as people who are not really them," he told CBC News at his apartment in St. Petersburg. "By the second or third day, it was clear where I had landed and what this was actually."
Last month, U.S. special prosecutor Robert Mueller indicted 13 Russian nationals who worked at the so-called "troll factory" in St. Petersburg, accusing them of interfering in the 2016 U.S. election. The allegations include fabricating news and using false identities to sow discord in the United States ahead of the vote.
Bespalov left long before that period — after just three months on the job.
"It was really bothering me what I was doing. I knew I had stayed to get more information [on the operation] but this feeling of disgust stayed with me."
He says he's sharing his story now with the hope that it makes people more aware of how the "fake news" business works and in the hope that the operation will be shut down.
The rest here:
Putin was 'good' and Obama was 'bad': Former Russian trolls reveal online work to create 'fake news' - World - CBC News
