https://www.reddit.com/r/bestof/comments/78fbs6/user_spots_russian_troll_farm_in_action_in_real/
Excerpts from top threads:
"Link is wrong, should be ... "
"Thank you much. It's far too early for me to be so confused when reading something. Edit: Nope. Still confused"
"Have you spotted the comment? This is confusing as all hell"
"How does this post have 11k upvotes if nobody knows what comment we're supposed to be fucking reading?"
"Can someone explain exactly what this post supposedly proves and how a Russian troll farm is at all involved?"
"I'm very confused as well - the user points out that the comment relies on speculation but I don't see the connection to Russian troll farms"
"Am I missing something? It just looks like the same old redditors regurgitating what they heard other people say. How is this Russian trolling?"
I hope this confusion will be a self-served red pill at least for some of them...
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[–] Russiandude [S] 1 point 1 point 2 points (+2|-1) ago
I was not originally going to discuss the text itself, just the funny behavior of redditors. But looking at the comment I don't think it's "bestof" material either. Russian propaganda does exist (although it is much smaller than the CTR). Heck, it can be argued that I'm a propagandist. I'm not paid by anyone to do this job though, nor I hide my biases, but I do write in foreign language on a heavily-politicized forum. But that comment does zero effort to prove or uncover said "trolls". In fact, from the point of view of Russian propaganda, "Browder's ban was an automatic error" is less favorable than "it was a conscious decision". The latter means "someone else besides us is convinced that he's a genuinely bad person", while the former is zero.
[–] o0shad0o 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Sure. I just wanted to post some quick references to the basis of what was being talked about.