#troll farm

[pasparal]

#NAFO #NATO #OTAN #OFAN #trolls #troll farm #Shiba Inu #dog #2022 #Georgian Legion #Saint Javelin #Kama Kamilia #Kamil Dyszewski #meme #car #carro #auto

[opanas-opanasovych-opanasenko]

this is where you post from:

#bot farm #troll farm #bot farms #troll farms #disinformation #misinformation #russia is a terrorist state

[tomorrowusa]

Elon Musk is making life easy for Putin’s trolls.

Hundreds of Russian and Chinese state propaganda accounts are thriving on Twitter after Elon Musk wiped out the team that fought these networks, the BBC has found.

The unit worked to combat "information operations", coordinated campaigns by countries such as Russia, China, and Iran, made to influence public opinion and disrupt democracy.

But experts and former employees say the majority of these specialists resigned or were laid off, leaving the platform vulnerable to foreign manipulation. The BBC has spoken to several of them. They asked for anonymity, citing non-disclosure agreements and threats they received online.

"The whole human layer has been wiped out. All Twitter has left are automated detections systems," a former senior employee said.

These “non-disclosure agreements“ are an attempt to circumvent accountability. Some of these former employees should be subpoenaed to testify at a Senate committee – that would provide them with the legal ability to disregard Musk’s non-disclosure agreements during testimony.

The troll farm operated by Putin crony Yevgeny Prigozhin actively worked to assist Donald Trump in 2016. With Russia mired in Ukraine, manipulating Western opinion is a cheap way for the Putin dictatorship to undermine Western support for Ukraine. 

Organised groups of people posting coordinated messages are called 'troll farms.' The term was first used by Russian reporters who exposed one of roughly 300 paid employees run by Yevgeny Prigozhin, head of the Wagner mercenary group.

Since then, troll farms influencing elections and public opinion have been uncovered in many countries, from Poland and Turkey to Brazil and Mexico. They have also been used as a propaganda tool in ethnic conflicts and wars.

Now, a new group of Russian trolls is active on Twitter.

It supports Putin's war in Ukraine, ridicules Kyiv and the West, and attacks independent Russian-language publications, including the BBC Russian Service. Many of these trolls' accounts have been suspended, but dozens are still active.

You might say that Musk is manure for the troll farms.

Lately Russia and China have also been using deceptive social media accounts to foment discord in the US over Trump’s recent indictment. The PBS NewsHour had a report on this a couple of days ago.

In general we need to quit relying on social media for news if we don’t want to get hoodwinked.

I have apps on my phone for the BBC, DW, the New York Times, the Washington Post, CBC, The Guardian, CNN, ABC (Australia)*, and about half a dozen other legit news organizations. I have notifications for them turned on. It’s not a perfect system but the chances of getting misinformation this way are small.

Social media has long been subject to manipulation. With Musk having eviscerated moderation at Twitter, that platform is more problematic than ever. I have not logged on at Twitter for years, but I maintain a bookmarked list of legit accounts which I check with varying degrees of regularity.

It’s time for serious users to leave Twitter. It continues to deteriorate under Musk. NPR announced this week that it is quitting Twitter. A viable alternative to Twitter, not vulnerable to a takeover by a rightwing oligarch, needs to be developed ASAP.

_________________________ * Just want to say that ABC News in Australia is an excellent news source. It goes way beyond Australian news. It punches way above its weight for the size (26.4 million) of the country. FYI: I’m not Australian; never been closer to the country than Southern Illinois. Look for their app at your app store. ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

#twitter #trolls #elon musk #musk is killing twitter #lack of moderation #russia #china #troll farm #yevgeny prigozhin #тролли из ольгино #евгений пригожин #donald trump #indictment #manipulation of social media #misinformation #disinformation #delete twitter #leave twitter #quit twitter #pbs news hour #stop using social media feeds for news #australian broadcasting corporation

[lejournaldupeintre]

U.S. mid term elections : “We interfered, we are interfering and we will interfere” (Yevgeny Prigozhin)

U.S. mid term elections : “We interfered, we are interfering and we will interfere” (Yevgeny Prigozhin)

Russian oligarch Yevgeniy Prigozhin, an ally of President Vladimir Putin and head of Russia’s Wagner mercenary group, which is fighting in Ukraine, boasted Monday that he was interfering in the U.S. midterm congressional elections and planned to continue doing so. Whether Prigozhin’s remarks were true, or merely disinformation intended to raise alarm in the United States, they nonetheless…

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#mid term #prigogyne #Prigozhin #Putin #troll farm #us elections #Wagner group

[orbitbrain]

Twitter, Meta Remove Accounts Linked to US Influence Operations: Report

Twitter, Meta Remove Accounts Linked to US Influence Operations: Report

Home › Cyberwarfare Twitter, Meta Remove Accounts Linked to US Influence Operations: Report By Ionut Arghire on August 26, 2022 Tweet For years, hundreds of Twitter, Facebook and Instagram accounts engaged in manipulation and spam that promoted pro-Western narratives, a new report from Graphika and the Stanford Internet Observatory (SIO) reveals. As part of multiple covert campaigns, the troll…

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#Facebook #influence operation #manipulation #Meta #pro-Western #troll farm #Twitter #US

[freezenet]

Google Warns that Bill C-18 Could Fund Misinformation Campaigns

Google Warns that Bill C-18 Could Fund Misinformation Campaigns

Bill C-18 could be used by state actors to redirect funds to their misinformation campaigns. This according to Google. (more…)

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#Bill C-18 #Canada #Google #Link Tax #misinformation #troll farm

[strelitzien-gewaechs]

most tragic moment of hermitcraf s10. rip iskalls horse cant believe beef would do this

#iskall85 #hermitcraft #iskall fanart #vintagebeef #iskall did nothing to deserve this (<- he fully deserved this actually. consequences of his actions) #the saga of beef getting trolled while just wanting to live his calm farming life is truely my fav hc bit atm #strels art #2024 strel art #iskalls stream today sure was smth

[ohsalome]

Comments section to an average video about war in Ukraine

Yes, a lot of these is russian trolls. But (1) not all of them, I've met people like this irl, and (2) it is not less distressing to be constantly bombarded with xenophobia AND russian missiles.

#ukraine #russia #war in ukraine #russian invasion of ukraine #russo ukrainian war #russian propaganda #war #disconformation #troll farms #tiktok

[thepastisalreadywritten]

The most powerful moment of the coronation of King Charles III was not the gold glittering off carriages or epaulettes — not the pomp and show and signifiers of power.

It was precisely their opposite: when Charles shed his gold robes and stood in a thin white shirt, his frail humanity implied.

Then a screen was erected around him and, shielded, he had a private consultation with the Archbishop of Canterbury, who dabbed anointing oil with his hands on Charles’s bare breast.

"This was the most solemn and personal of moments,” Buckingham Palace said.

Charles was bare before God, in privacy, God being one of the last beings with no need to sign a non-disclosure agreement.

The Princess of Wales looked on as the screen shielded her father-in-law.

By contrast, she was at that point the most magnificent she had ever been, swathed in layer upon layer of regality, the dress, the robes, the hanging chains, headpiece and ribbons all serving to move the viewing gaze — subjects in every sense — from our awareness of Catherine Middleton with her everyday human DNA and towards the shared fiction of her transcendent queenliness.

Less than a year later, this moment is remembered with new and terrible power.

It is spring again, but it’s a time of hard Lenten moral reflection for us as a nation, in relationship to our royals, as well as an ever more voraciously unprivate modern celebrity culture.

Both the King and the princess have cancer, the latter’s disclosed by Catherine in an unprecedented video address on Friday, March 22.

Catherine’s speech was something of a plea bargain in which she traded not only her customary silence but her most personal of health ordeals in order to put an end to toxic rumours swirling online that had become in tone like an unruly mob rattling at the palace gates.

Or rattling at the figurative locks on her medical notes, with three workers at the London Clinic, where she and the King were treated, suspended and under investigation for allegedly trying to access her records (hers, it is important to note, the King’s were unmolested).

📷: Getty Images

What was so powerful about the anointing of the King was the sacredness of that space in which he could be fully human away from observation and judgment.

There should be another one-on-one consultation that is sacred, where anyone, from King to princess to pauper, can expect to be shriven in total privacy, and that is the sanctity of the medical room.

It used to be that priests were our only bound confidants, we could trust them to be privy to all our spiritual ills.

Now doctors are our secular priests: bound by law and ethics to enshrine confidentiality at the heart of the patient relationship.

As a result, our medical privacy in an age of oversharing and online surveillance feels both stranger and more necessary.

If we knew our every GP-inspected rash was to be posted on TikTok for the nation, many of us would quite literally die of embarrassment.

The King’s appointment behind the three-sided screen can now be viewed through the lens of royal illness.

The lavishly embroidered panels and expensive white shirt now replaced by the flimsy three-sided ward screen on wheels and thin hospital gown that can humble us all.

But it also enacts a principle at the very heart of becoming the monarch.

The medical-like screen is erected in the coronation to tell us there are some places the public cannot go; to tell us that there are sacredly personal moments in which a person, any person, however swathed in our projections of power, needs to be nakedly human.

Otherwise, they will go mad. We need to make sure the screens are erected around Catherine now.

Much is said, quite a lot of it by Prince Harry himself, of the dangers of the wives of the princes repeating the tragic history of their mother, Princess Diana, hunted by photographers.

He remains phobic to any hint of tabloid persecution or paparazzi chase. But this is a sideshow, even an anachronism in 2024.

He and others have not recognised how the “chase” has changed. Who needs paparazzi when there are a billion citizen hacks ready to take pictures with their phones, in case a convalescing woman nips to a Windsor farm shop with her husband?

Instead, the appetite now is not to see but to know.

The royals used to have a contract with the public: we pay for them, and in return, they give us their presence.

Nearly all of their official job is to do with surface: to show up, to put in appearances at a set number of functions, whether at the opening of parliament or the opening of a leisure centre.

But now parts of the online mob seem to be staging a coup. We want more than the surface, we want to puncture the skin barrier of the royal family and occupy from the inside.

The “fans” have become an invasive virus. The royal analogy is often that they are trapped in a gilded zoo. This new model, instead, casts the royals more as lab rats.

When Catherine disappeared from view in January after announcing a “planned abdominal operation,” the response from internet truthers was one of irate entitlement.

They are now the 1980s tabloids: ravening for intimacies and making stuff up when thwarted.

This wasn’t the boomer generation, who are both more respectful of the royals and more private about their own health.

It was the fortysomething mothers frustrated when they can’t track the phone location of everyone in their life; or the twentysomethings on Snap Map.

Both desperate for their personalised new Netflix season of “The Royals” to drop.

Catherine presents with such stoicism and dignity, it is easy to forget where this new invasiveness started: when she was pregnant with Prince George in December 2012 and hospitalised for extreme morning sickness.

While she was sleeping on the ward, a radio station in Australia rang the hospital switchboard pretending to be the Queen.

They broadcast the nurse’s comments about Catherine’s “retching.”

One could only find this prank funny if Catherine had already — a young, wretchedly ill, pregnant woman — been dehumanised.

George is now ten and his mother hospitalised again, and in that decade, the physical security of ill royals may have tightened but their claim to bodily autonomy seems to have weakened.

Some say Kensington Palace “brought it on themselves” by their wish for discretion; this claim is duplicitous.

The late Queen Elizabeth II became increasingly debilitated in her final years with not much detail ever given; just as her father, King George VI, died without disclosing his lung cancer.

I’m glad that the British do not subject their heads of state to the same publicised medical reports as the president of the United States; one shouldn’t have to present a stool swab to sit on the throne.

No, instead the apparent justification of all those clicking and posting conspiracy theories “worried for Catherine’s welfare” was this sinful truth.

As a beautiful, 42-year-old mother of three, her drama was more box office than the ailments of those older, a pound of her flesh was worth more.

Pity, Susan Sontag said in her 1978 book Illness as Metaphor, is close to contempt.

Back then cancer was still taboo. Those around the patient, Sontag says, “express pity but also convey contempt.”

Ask any cancer patient and they will say they don’t want pity: it is too isolating, it sets them apart, an unwanted privilege.

This is why the video plea of Catherine was one of affinity, rather than pity or privilege.

Last year, she sat in robes in Westminster Abbey at the coronation of her father-in-law, next to her future king son and future king husband.

In her video address last week, she sat on a classically English garden bench, pale, alone and in jeans, as bare of pomp as any royal can be.

No mention of kings or titles, just Diana’s ring on her hand.

Rather she gave an appeal, parent to parent, human to human, about her “huge shock” and her care for her “young family.”

And, finally, her kinship with anyone who lives in a vulnerable human body susceptible to a democratic illness like cancer, “you are not alone.”

Or, to paraphrase Richard Curtis:

“I’m just a girl, standing in front of a public, asking for some time to endure gruelling chemotherapy."

NOTE: Additional photos have been included in this article.

#King Charles III #Prince William #Prince of Wales #Princess of Wales #Catherine Princess of Wales #Catherine Middleton #Kate Middleton #British Royal Family #cancer #chemotherapy #preventative chemotherapy #social media #fake news #click farms #bots #trolls #disinformation #misinformation #viral #abdominal surgery #celebrity culture

[greyias]

Me: sees that stupid ass election interference post being reblogged for the THIRD TIME by someone who should know better to check their sources, writes up a long rant post

Me: wait—there’s a button for that!

PSA: report shady posts that seem designed to mislead you about voting. And for fuck’s sake stop reblogging things that are meant to convince people that voting doesn’t matter

#and block that fucking thememedaddy blog #because if it isn’t a russian troll farm #it’s a fucking content farm at best and every single post is stolen #either way it’s not a real tumblr user and shouldn’t be given the time of day #(sorry. i snapped) #(but at least i deleted the rant)

[just-some-normal-jessica]

tweaked my fuckhands mcjared design a bit, my first iteration lacked a few things

and did a little pinterest snooping for poses

#my art #don't feed the muse #dftm #muse arg #happy meat farms #spongebob theory arg #this place is not happy #hmf jared #jared warrenheim #he did a little trolling •:3 #what is a jared if not Wheatley But Worse #more eyes more unpleasant to hang out with

[shadowfloofster]

I just saw the new QSMP rules and 2 of them are SO TARGETED it's so funny

This is specifically Bad and Dapper after their tower prank on Foolish and it's not even been a DAY since they did it LMAO

And this one is a target towards Bad mainly, constantly stocking the eggs up with totems. I'm curious to figure out how he finds a way around this lmao.

I'm the second one is technically targetting all the parents but reading them my immediate thoughts were on Bad due to how many totems he gives the eggs constantly.

The last one is probably so the admins can update the eggtistics when it hits the time, instead of having to wait for Bad to stop streaming at like 9am (UK time as that's my timezone, 12am PST is 8am here)

It also makes sure streamers are aware of when they can do the tasks and it still count but it'd be SO funny if Bad was the main reason for 3 of the new rules lmao

#qsmp #qsmp badboyhalo #qsmp dapper #I saw them and they were SO TARGETED AT PEOPLE #The first one probably is because of rescuing Felps and Cellbit #And Fit's melon troll in the church #I don't know the xp farm room is because of Forever's one? It technically doesn't say you can't move spawners #Third was definitely because of the Pac and Mike putting that insanely loud video yesterday #the rest are quite generic but probably to stop streamers leaving it till last minute

[socialjusticeinamerica]

Even when the proof is there some of you refuse to believe it. People on our side need to stop challenging credible sources. You’ve been conditioned by Trump in just a few short years to not believe anything and to do so without question. As adult Americans you should know by now which sources are credible and which are propaganda.

There’s no tule stating the poster’s commentary has to be directly about the contents of an article either. We’re adults, we can add information, extrapolate, make connections and point out similarities or inconsistencies.

#never trump #republican assholes #traitor trump #republican hypocrisy #crooked donald #Russian election interference #Russian troll farms #Republican propaganda #russian propaganda #misinformation #disinformation #republicans lie about everything

[odinsblog]

Considering how Twitter, YouTube and Facebook have terminated most of their departments that were responsible for limiting the spread of dis/misinformation, it’s going to be an exceptionally bad election season in 2024. Worse even, than the 2016 elections. The example here is intentionally glaring in its differences from Biden’s fake vs. his real words. But far more subtle deep fakes are coming (or are already here). Even if think that YOU can always spot the difference, others may not be able to, and do not underestimate your ability to be fooled by something that you tacitly support or subconsciously agree with. And that’s without even getting into troll farms. So please be weary of the media you consume.

Please help spread awareness and share.

#politics #deep fakes #fact checking #misinformation #disinformation #troll farms #a.i. #artificial intelligence #election 2024 #ai #electioneering

[handdrawnfantasma]

i spent my first time playing this game with no idea that you could remove the bloodless debuff using Lesser Restoration and so Tilly spent like fully an entire third of her run going through all of that combat and exploration and cult destroying while mildly anaemic. my friends only told me about this yesterday and we all had a good laugh at my expense but we also decided that this is probably what was happening. and honestly. in any case it is a PAINFULLY in character Tilly thing for her not to be aware of this so I'm adding it to my beloved gallery of Tilly Tosscobble 10 INT Moments. not pictured: Gale frantically adding iron-rich foods to the evening meal every night

(also shart is wrong it's not a sex thing it is a halfling thing filtered through a very Tilly lens. everyone at the table eats)

#i'm feeling brave and think this is funny enough to put in the main tags so #baldur's gate 3 #bg3 tav #bg3 halfling #bg3 shadowheart #bg3 bard #bg3 fanart #my doodles #fel livebagels bg3 #tilly: has the WIS to know that as a small creature she does not have the blood to spare every night!! #... does not have the INT to know that a simple spell would solve this issue :') #DOES however have the insane troll logic granted to low INT high WIS folks to decide that her experience from growing up on a farm and-- #managing things sustainably there can be applied here. i love my girl she's a moron and occasionally so am i <3

[artaxlivs]

This was incredibly fun to write and so easy because @doomcheese's artwork is spectacular. Check it out here and go tell her how freaking talented she is!

Big thanks to my very good (non tumblr) friend Ash and @rufusbear for giving it a quick beta read.

Homesteddie Farms, by @artaxlivs

Word count: 3,582

Rated T, No Archive Warnings

Steve Harrington/Eddie Munson,

Tags: Max Mayfield, Dustin Henderson, animals, Steve Harrington in overalls, Eddie naming everything after 80s fantasy movies, domestic fluff, fluff and humor, slice of life, established relationship, AU: Modern setting, the queer millennial dream life, Tiktok, Steve trolls better than Eddie, Farm/Ranch

Summary :

“I thought you were helping me with the morning feeding?” “Stevie! I am helping!” With his free hand, Eddie motions to the gaggle of animals clamoring for their attention. “You’re making another Tiktok video. That’s not helping.” Steve sighs but his lips pull up in a hint of a smile. Jabbing a finger into Steve’s side to make him yelp and skitter away, Eddie taps the record button and grins at the camera on his phone, “Hey-howdy-hey folks! Welcome to another beauuu-ti-ful morning here at Homesteddie Farms! Say hi to the farm fans, Steve.” Steve huffs a breath, before shaking his head and saying in a fond tone, “Hey farm fans!” Then he grunts out an 'oof' as one of the goats stands up on it’s hind legs, head butts Steve in the thigh and begins to nibble on the raggedy bottom of his cut off overall shorts. “Madmartigan! Get down.”

Thanks to the mods at the @strangerthingsreversebigbang for making this entire process run so smoothly and running this event so successfully!

#stranger things #eddie munson #steve harrington #farm life #critters #I should name all the things #steve harrington is an absolute troll #stranger things reverse bang #artwork