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uhnope

(6,419 posts)
Wed Mar 16, 2016, 04:22 PM Mar 2016

My Year as a Pro-Russia Troll Magnet: International Shaming Campaign and an SMS from Dead Father

A good read. This journalist was totally bombarded and stalked by the professional Putin-bot cyber-scum who apparently run amok in Finlad. A lot of the tactics are the same as seen on DU at times--accusing her "western institutional racism and hatred towards Russia", accusing her of being a paid propagandist for NATO/CIA for example (when of course ironically the trolls really are Kremlin-paid).

http://kioski.yle.fi/omat/my-year-as-a-pro-russia-troll-magnet

A year ago Yle investigative journalist Jessikka Aro started a series on Russian infowar and became a target for systematic pro-Russia propaganda. This is her story.
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