now we've been covering the story here about ukraine of course in the russian
incursion in the Crimea initially and then eastern Ukraine
and we noticed but it was a lotta commenters who will attack us
though and say we've got a story all wrong and we're
that terrible and that in fact the russians a ride in the ukrainians are
doing propaganda
now sonum I recognize because their old viewers and I take them seriously
and I pay attention to what you're saying and I taking that data
others I did not recognize there was a lot a new folks come in and tell me how
great russia was and how was all the West Baltimore ukraine's ball
and we didn't understand the situation we thought from
what turns out now BuzzFeed has written a great story
about someone who was hacked the hackers their reporting
about a Russian quote kroll
farm that has now also been described as a troll
army the russians have released but cracked in
on the Internet and it's a propaganda crack its
fascinating so we've got these guys that are now going on all these different web
sites whether their concert like boxes are the Blazer Huffington Post and
Politico
et cetera they're and what they're trying to do is they're trying to mold
public opinion but the there's a
Russian hacker collective that
is apparently in charge of this but there's another group called anonymous
international
there's not necessarily part A what we know is anonymous
then then leaked about this troll army found out all these emails
and BuzzFeed says all their previous
the leaks anonymous internationals have proven to be correct
okay so when he gets in this world internet propaganda
it is exceedingly difficult to see who do proper yen on which side and it's not
like the ukrainians though do probably an invalid the West those new propaganda
of course they do right in this case amounts International has been right
about every other instance and here they are saying
you can read it for yourself all these a different emails and documents about how
the russians who raises troll army
and so let's tell you what their goals are and
and their methods and down on the number this is what I find really interesting
they explain on both feet on average working day the russians
or to pose a news articles fifty times so they have these courts
each bloggers to maintain six Facebook accounts publishing at least 3 posts a
day
and discussing the newsgroups at least twice a day
then they go on the same by then the first month they are expected to have
will have won 500 subscribers you get at least by post on each item a day
an MP go to every department and that
so they've got their blogs daily the comments on the sites on the channel's
et cetera and then they go on Twitter too on Twitter the bloggers are expected
to manage 10 Council up to 2,000 followers
and tweet 50 times a day now
this appears to be put together by the Internet research
agency they a look like they're near Saint Petersburg in Russia
I and their overall budget is ten million dollars
in 2014 it's not say that they spend the whole ten million dollars on this
particular program
but they're using some russian students and that's why some other post that
you'll see will be in
little bit a broken English and what's funny is that they try to connect with
the American and Western audience
by doing things like cursing and
coming out with questionable titles for themselves
first let me tell you what their themes are the themes are American dream
and I love Russia will boy that's up really subtle
couldn't tell where you're coming from there I believe in American dream at all
Russia the usual alright with me
okay great so what are some other handles this I like
handkerchief gate hurdle
the ghost above Marius the giraffe
the left breast the black breast
as simply ass see what I love what that says about what they think about the
internet
me like at the Internet its form left awsome
left breast then I don't know just make up something bolder and put it on there
and it'll seem realistic
so here's this guy all over the floor press the no of course these I'll look
at this the ukrainians are all wrong russians are alright
so part the reason that the russians the once this is proven hates the Internet
he thinks that if the CIA project well and he thinks what the CIA invented the
internet to
you know but to infiltrate the whole world
well I will infiltrate the Internet a user for my own propaganda purposes
now he's trying to shut down the internet making different ways in Russia
for example if your someone who has over 3,000 followers
in russia you have to register with the government okay those are got her
bloggers
they've shut down a lot of the people who are opposed to them on the internet
in in at in russia itself
and they think okay good we control our own internet and then
will do like we think the CIA's doing and put out propaganda
the wrestling world now the CIA do proper tiananmen
it's certainly possible I don't discount that at all in fact we show you how
summer private contractors got hired by the US government to do propaganda
against
its enemies including a Americans that they disagreed with
so there's a lot of that going on on the Internet but it I
the idea that the CIA invented the internet to spread
knowledge and information everybody and that was a devious plot
well but once it was so devious that it actually turn out to be great
it actually went so far that actually forms on all the governments which the
court so we love
now back to patrol farm in their armies its leonid
brzezinski he's there media executive and
Bloomberg View columnist and he says what do you think crazy Russians all
learned English
in Mass and one of the comment on articles if it looks like really should
smells like kremlin should and taste like Ramli should too
then it's kremlin should I like that pic
Mexican hey who isn't expert on Russia who doesn't mince his works
he's like yet they did not is magically pop other woodworking be like
oh yeah here so here we are with a broken English
mopping all the sites in the video channels in center at the same time
of course is not a coincidence and now
possibly got top is a former to Russia States newswire media Alex laboratory
someone sold the thought that Western media which specific we have to align
their interests
with their audience won't be able to ignore saturated pro-russian campaigns
and want to change the tone the Russia coverage
to placate their angry readers so
I here's what they miscalculated are mainstream media
cigarette damn about their audience so they're like oh is that what our
audience a
or worry to Twitter to
so i three you greatly miscalculated how much
are you in your actually cares so that was part of the reason so they can get
the mainstream media than a turnaround say maybe russia not so bad
and finally we are possible check of his member russia's presidential Human
Rights Council
and he says the Internet has become the main threat
this fear that isn't controlled by the Kremlin that's why they're going after
its very existence as we know it is being undermined by these measures
so that is really interesting so the campaign
is to put Russian propaganda out there with your
are mute roles which sounds fun and then
about to try to also create the mainstream media into thinking that
they're real
and give you more positive coverage but then third a ball
to undermine the internet itself
Putin hates internet anything slug given by product if this is that you trust
nothing on the Internet
you only trust the official news that my
supporters in Russia give you great
mission accomplished so as
funny as parts of this russian troll army story are
it's also quite dangerous and it gives you send so what who's really up to
and what he thinks I'm hot unsurprisingly press freedom
and the Internet it is the internet Miley the press freedom
we should be a worse case scenario for
usually people who are on the right don't try to hide the truth
okay by the way russian troll army on this video
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