Citations:troll army

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Noun: "troll army"

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• 2012 February 28, politicalomnivore (pseud. of unknown), “How Do I Get Paid To Be An On-Line Troll!?”, in blogspot.com‎^[1], archived from the original on 2013-02-06:

  The idea that there's thousands of dollars worth of value (and remember, there are a bunch of these guys so it's, let's assume 80k per year for a 10-troll army working in 6-month shifts) in manipulating the tiny self-selected group of people who visit the site and read the comments seems ridiculous. Consider this: what is the last time you saw anyone change someone's mind by arguing online? Oh, sure—there may be cases in certain very sensitive political situations—or with specific population groups and volatile online movements (Middle Eastern regimes censor Twitter because it does have a for-real political impact. I'm sure those governments have their own disinformation regimes as well).

• 2012 January 22, Adam Cathcart, “North Korea's Troll Army? The Sinophone Internet Debate Over Kim Jong Un's On-Site Inspection”, in sinonk.com‎^[2], [s.l.]: Sino-NK, archived from the original on 2013-07-19:
• 2013 August 13, Mike Firn, “North Korea builds online troll army of 3,000”, in telegraph.co.uk‎^[3], Telegraph Media Group Limited, archived from the original on 2013-08-16:

  Agents use identities stolen from South Korean internet users and post comments on the country's internet bulletin boards, the institute said.
  Hackers also spread propaganda by breaking into South Korean websites and linking them to pro-Pyongyang sites. North Korea defends its own websites by developing applications to stop Seoul blocking access and constantly changing IP addresses.
  The institute says North Korea spreads propaganda through 140 sites with servers based in 19 countries.

• 2014 August 12, Daisy Sindelar, “The Kremlin's Troll Army”, in theatlantic.com‎^[4], Washington, DC: The Atlantic Monthly Group, archived from the original on 2014-08-12:

  The Kremlin, which has waged a massive disinformation campaign aimed at legitimizing Russia's annexation of Crimea and support for separatists in eastern Ukraine, has employed so-called "troll armies" to invade online territories armed with pro-Moscow rhetoric.

• 2015 January 30, jonathan, “Putin's social media army unmasked”, in sci.military.naval‎^[5] (Usenet), message-ID <rMednVdTcp8zI1bJnZ2dnUU7-fWdnZ2d@giganews.com>:

  The workaround to a bot army, the Kremlin has discovered, is a troll army.

• 2015 August 17, Joel Harding, “US Intelligence Community Keys In On The Russian ' Troll Army ' Manipulating Social Media”, in toinformistoinfluence.com‎^[6], [s.l.]: Joel Harding, archived from the original on 2015-08-18:

  But intelligence officials know that, increasingly, autocracies are deploying "trolls" – robotic feeds or paid commentators – to sway social media trends. [...]
  [...]
  More than half a decade ago, China pioneered the practice of falsifying social media communications to influence perceptions of Beijing’s ruling party.

• 2015, Julie Ryan, Leading issues in cyber warfare and security: for researchers, teachers, and students, volume 2, Reading, UK: Academic Conferences and Publishing International, →ISBN, page xii:

  The New York Times published an excellent analysis of the activities of the Russian Troll Army in June 2015.

• 2015, Armistead Leigh with Scott Starsman, “Perception Shaping and Cyber Macht: Russia and Ukraine”, in Jannie Zaaiman, Louise Leenan, editors, 10th International Conference on Cyber Warfare and Security (ICCWS 2015) Kruger National Park, South Africa, 24 - 25 March 2015, Red Hook, NY: Curran, →ISBN, page 16:

  Political proxies (such as Stop the War and numerous politicians); PR Agencies and consultancies; The Troll army of paid internet commentators, all working to a script (Usenko and Usenko).

• 2016, Rolf Fredheim, “August 1991 and the memory of communism in Russia”, in Andrea Hajek, Christine Lohmeier, Christian Pentzold, editors, Memory in a mediated world: remembrance and reconstruction, New York [u.a.]: Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, page 225:

  Documents show how Russia's troll army hit America,

• 2020 May 26, Kate Conger, Davey Alba, “Twitter Refutes Inaccuracies in Trump’s Tweets for First Time”, in New York Times‎^[7]:

  “We have witnessed abuse, harassment, troll armies, manipulation through bots and human-coordination, misinformation campaigns, and increasingly divisive echo chambers,” he tweeted at the time. “We aren’t proud of how people have taken advantage of our service, or our inability to address it fast enough.”