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| Subject: 'Turning people into zombies': Inside the Russian troll factory Mon Feb 19, 2018 7:23 pm | |
| At first, new recruits to the Internet Research Agency, the notorious Russian troll factory, were thrilled by the better-than-average salaries they earned simply for posting on the internet. But one says he eventually realised that the work hid a darker reality: Both they and their audience were meant to turn into zombies.
"They were just giving me money for writing," said the former troll, a St. Petersburg resident who wanted to get into marketing or journalism but was drawn by the hard-to-match paycheck. "I was much younger and did not think about the moral side. I simply wrote because I loved writing. I was not trying to change the world."
http://www.smh.com.au/world/turning-people-into-zombies-inside-the-russian-troll-factory-20180219-p4z0xe.html |
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