"Russian troll armies.." if you believe in "Russian troll armies", you are welcome to believe in flying saucers as well..

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avhception a day ago | parent | next [-]

Are you implying that the "neo-KGB" never mounted a concerted effort to manipulate western public opinion through comment spam? We can debate whether that should be called a "troll army", but we're fairly certain that such efforts are made, no?

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Arainach a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Russian mass influence campaigns are well documented globally and have been for more than a decade.

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Libidinalecon a day ago | parent | next [-]

It is also right in their military strategy text that you can read yourself.

Even beyond that, why would an adversarial nation state to the US not do this? It is extremely asymmetrical, effective and cheap.

The parent comment shows how easy it is to manipulate smart people away from their common sense into believing obvious nonsense if you use your brain for 2 seconds.

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justsomejew a day ago | parent | prev [-]

Of course, of course.. still, strangely I see online other kinds of "armies" much more often.. and the scale, in this case, is indeed of armies..

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OKRainbowKid a day ago | parent [-]

Whataboutism, to me, seems like one of the most important tools of the Russian troll army.

	▲	justsomejew 18 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Well, counting the number of "non trolls" here, and my own three comments, surely shows the Russian hords in action ;)

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lpcvoid a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Going by your past comments, you're a great example of a russian troll.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Research_Agency

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anonymars a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Here's a recent example

https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/justice-department-d...

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pjc50 a day ago | parent | prev [-]

This is well-documented, as are the corresponding Chinese ones.