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There absolutely are groups of paid contractors making right wing posts in various places online for payment, it happens in Japan with the netuyos (recognisable because they all talk and type in the same weird, broken English, probably from set scripts). I'm sure it happens here too.
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Oxxidation posted:SA isn't important enough for well-organized trolling attempts. It's easy to think this way because this place was founded on the idea that, hardy har har, the internet is serious business, but this place has a readership in the thousands and would absolutely make for a good target. If some third rate indie game developer can make an account here to promote his lovely game and get kickstarter funds, what makes you think that some CIA or whatever agency funded right wing propagandists won't use it that way?
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Feb 2, 2017 19:33
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Freakazoid_ posted:The concept of organized trolling is ridiculous. It's basically a self-fulfilling prophecy. People keep believing it because trolling personally affects their social media bubble. By painting them as an organized resistance, you validate your own bubble. By becoming a secret agent puppet master like them, you created the force you think was against you in the first place. In Holland it was revealed today that a small party , mostly representing the interests of Turkish immigrants, although most people believe it's actually a proxy for the Turkish government to wield influence over its diaspora, used troll accounts to influence media discussions. Like, with leaked chatlogs and everything where they organize it and talk about targeting specific websites. So it does occur, it's just hard to say on what scale and by which parties.
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