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Assange gives good explanation for "troll farms" (tweet)

https://twitter.com/JulianAssange/status/965328224514465792 ...
Gay Judgmental Locale Partner
  02/19/18
God he's such a Russian puppet. He was a lot more interestin...
free-loading wild parlor ceo
  02/19/18
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Gay Judgmental Locale Partner
  02/20/18


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Date: February 19th, 2018 9:42 PM
Author: Gay Judgmental Locale Partner

https://twitter.com/JulianAssange/status/965328224514465792

Buried in the Mueller astro-turfing indictment is something that we have long suspected. The Internet Research Agency's "troll farm" is geared to develop audience in socially active communities (e.g through aligned memes), in order to spam them on behalf of anyone willing to pay:

@JulianAssange

Before advertising networks can advertise they must build audience. How much of IRA's activities were simply trying to build audience by gaining followers using tweets and memes likely to be shared in those communities?

@JulianAssange

IRA allegedly also ran kitten appreciation groups. Are we also to believe that these kittens were also a plot to divide America? To not distinguish between audience building and customer advertising payload is sketchy.

@JulianAssange

The US has 320 million people with a trillion dollar media and cultural sector that employees over a million people. I do not assess that it is possible whatsoever to divide America by trying to "heighten the differences" with a hundred trolls.

@JulianAssange

Re-enforcing audience bias is exactly what Facebook & Google have been doing at a vast scale by algorithmically preying on people's existing biases to increase engagement. In a more traditional manner, FOX, MSNBC, CNN, NYTimes, WaPO etc, are doing the same thing.

@JulianAssange

Regardless of whether IRA's activities were audience building through pandering to communities or whether a hare-brained Russian government plan to "heighten the differences" existed, its activities are clearly strategically insignificant compared to the other forces at play.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3897992&forum_id=2#35441040)



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Date: February 19th, 2018 9:47 PM
Author: free-loading wild parlor ceo

God he's such a Russian puppet. He was a lot more interesting without Putin's arm up his butthold.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3897992&forum_id=2#35441086)



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Date: February 20th, 2018 3:28 PM
Author: Gay Judgmental Locale Partner



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3897992&forum_id=2#35446303)