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#42 | Posted by madbomber at 2026-08-28 10:22 AM
C0RI0LANUS is not a real person. Or at least not a real person from the US. The dictation is all wrong, and there is no officer in the world who would have written "Lieutenant Colonel" as Lieutenant-Colonel. That's not a thing. I've suspected this for a while, but for me, this confirmed it.
Maybe try not helping troll farms "debug" their "holes" - they'll make it more difficult to identify their trolls next time. They still use human trolls, including native English speaking contractors, because they are cheaper, but pushing the misinformation/disinformation content of AI-generated material from fake websites to legit channels or social media.
C0RI0LANUS is clearly a human CRINK troll, slightly more sophisticated than low-level Effeteposer, who is Putin's so-called "probe" troll - initially throwing things out on a blogsite to identify the areas of interest, majority "consensus" on empathy and issues, and then promote and feed daily these directional views (like "socialism" and "anti-Israel" / "anti-Zionism"), for the most part staying away from or being negative on the site's generally unpopular views (like Russia).
theconversation.com - Kremlin's 'troll factory' and classic propaganda techniques reimagined for the social media age
|------- ... Then, in 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine and the troll factories started working overtime.
I quickly found myself in an echo chamber: the comments on articles critical of Russia's actions in Ukraine were flooded with pro-Kremlin remarks that seemed contrived. ...
... For English-speaking audiences, the agency operatives used euphemisms (mild terms for something harsh) and dysphemisms (harsh terms for something mild) to shape the narrative. For example, "return home" (euphemism) instead of "annexation" or "neo-Nazi regime" (dysphemism) instead of "Ukrainian government".
... Tailored messages are strategically crafted to resonate with the target audience's beliefs and emotions...
But while agency trolls attempted to "sound American", rhetorically, their tweets seemed rather dull. They had a more pronounced bias towards the extremes, focusing on inflammatory language and hot takes. This was not surprising, considering that elaborate rhetoric requires full competence in the target language, time, and effort...
The trolls' engagement with conspiracy theories spanned far-right (QAnon, "evil elites" manipulating the public) and far-left (The Grayzone, US government using COVID for profit) fringe communities...
In all this "information disorder", defeating state trolls requires confronting a sobering reality: both state and non-state actors increasingly engage in organised disinformation on social media...
The use of AI to create realistic fake content, combined with advanced data analytics to target specific audiences will pose significant challenges to efforts aimed at countering disinformation.
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Article is mostly about Russia-Ukraine, but the troll factories switched to demonizing Israel and Jews (like "ZioNazis" etc.) full-bore right after Hamas attack on October 7, 2023.
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