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uhnope

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6. your balderdash would make Sarah Palin proud

Tue May 31, 2016, 06:17 AM

May 2016

"apparently" "it is legal" "to hire" ... what the heck are you talking about.

Interesting that you would immediately throw this confusing distraction in on the subject of Russian trolls in the media

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Effort to Expose Russia's 'Troll Army' Draws Vicious Retaliation [View all] uhnope May 2016 OP

Hard to sort out our own government propoganda and their paid trolls from Lodestar May 2016 #1

Examples? DetlefK May 2016 #3

how awesome Hillary is. smiley May 2016 #4

And that makes them trolls? DetlefK May 2016 #5

Some of them, yes. MisterFred May 2016 #9

"Some do it" is no proof for "They do it". DetlefK May 2016 #15

Hillary PAC Spends $1 Million to ‘Correct’ Commenters on Reddit and Facebook d_legendary1 May 2016 #21

they'd be dumb not to counter all the republican trolls pretending to be bernie or bust certainot May 2016 #48

Got any proof that Bernie or Bust posters are all right wing trolls? d_legendary1 May 2016 #58

i didn't say they were all rw trolls certainot May 2016 #61

a million isn't much to spend on a "social media business" Sunlei May 2016 #49

It is if you're paying people $.05 a post d_legendary1 May 2016 #59

info wars Lodestar May 2016 #25

It doesn't hurt to apply some common sense... TipTok May 2016 #50

some Sanders supporters doing precisely the same are trolls as well, yes? LanternWaste May 2016 #52

Yes, some Sanders supporters are trolls. MisterFred May 2016 #64

This message was self-deleted by its author smiley May 2016 #54

Snowden uncovered/released information about this subject. Lodestar May 2016 #23

CIA and NSA programs Lodestar May 2016 #26

That's the only explanation that makes sense to you? Gman May 2016 #29

Demanding evidence is not "a narrow world view". DetlefK May 2016 #32

The cognitive dissonance can be stifling Gman May 2016 #43

I pretend objective evidence is stifling as well... it protects us from rational thought. LanternWaste May 2016 #53

your balderdash would make Sarah Palin proud uhnope May 2016 #6

14 more days of tinfoil theories like this nt geek tragedy May 2016 #7

Pfft. MisterFred May 2016 #10

I can't imagine who would have so much money that they'd waste it hiring geek tragedy May 2016 #11

How about smear artists? Octafish May 2016 #14

There are many here, I believe, who see DU as the center of the liberal political world. Dr Hobbitstein May 2016 #17

now THAT'S an inconvenient truth! nt uhnope May 2016 #38

YOU would. Your tax dollars at work. Lodestar May 2016 #27

Natural News is a crazy-ass nutjob anti-vaxxer website. nt geek tragedy May 2016 #28

Would love to see the list of "legitimate xources" you come up with. Lodestar May 2016 #30

They think Obama is an Islamist terrorist under deep cover. They're crazy. geek tragedy May 2016 #31

you just won the thread uhnope May 2016 #39

republicons have been using paid callers for rw radio for years certainot May 2016 #47

Yes there are paid Russian trolls on this site dbackjon Jun 2016 #66

Decades-old soviet propaganda-technique, now brought back with RT and internet-trolls. DetlefK May 2016 #2

This message was self-deleted by its author Turbineguy May 2016 #8

Why not? MisterFred May 2016 #12

I think it is different. Adrahil May 2016 #16

Well, it's true that the origin of their bias is different. MisterFred May 2016 #63

It is much different metroins May 2016 #19

There is more than CNN, Fox News and RT on the internet... Have you tried: DetlefK May 2016 #22

Yes to some of those. MisterFred May 2016 #62

Clinton SuperPac Admits to Paying Internet Trolls Lodestar May 2016 #34

And that makes russian trolling and russian propaganda okay? DetlefK May 2016 #35

Putin went all out old school 'soviet union' on media & internet access. Government took over. Sunlei May 2016 #13

What are their DU usernames? iandhr May 2016 #18

Quite often it is "name removed" FSogol May 2016 #20

lol iandhr May 2016 #24

Not often enough Democat May 2016 #33

True. Bradical79 May 2016 #60

Post removed Post removed May 2016 #36

Da Comrade. MohRokTah May 2016 #40

red baiting worked in the 50's, but it was bull shit then and it's bull shit now. ish of the hammer May 2016 #41

the russian political system today is an oligarchy... ish of the hammer May 2016 #42

We're a democratic republic, Putin. get your face out of your cellphone. Sunlei May 2016 #45

why are you calling me Putin? is that an insult of some kind? ish of the hammer May 2016 #46

It'S YoUr SeLeCtIve CaPs pUtIn. Would you please return the thousands of items, the nazi loot Sunlei May 2016 #51

ask the Swiss to return the Jews money, ask the American military to return von Braun's ish of the hammer May 2016 #55

HeRe's some MoRe FoOd PuTiN. TrY to SenD Me to SiBerA. Sunlei May 2016 #56

not much sense here, sunny boy. ish of the hammer May 2016 #57

I think you do not realize that you just got destroyed uhnope Jun 2016 #65

So, Putin didn't take over Russias entire media last year place it under government authority AND Sunlei May 2016 #44

But Snowden + Greenwald said we're the only country to do this!! Blue_Tires May 2016 #37