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With automated troll armies it's hard to have a reasonable comments section.

• omginternets 10y ago
  This is actually a very good point. There was an article a few months ago about Twitter bots influencing the Brexit vote (can't find it atm...)
• hx87 10y ago
  I'm pretty sure the trolls are still human, albeit employed by organizations. With that in mind, I wonder if it's possible to create sites that are nothing but trollbait (i.e. articles supporting/critical of Russia) to soak up and waste the trolls' time.
  • qaq 10y ago
    Depends if you take Russian Olgino as example (based on how things appear to be). Profile creation is automated, some of the content posting seams to be identical texts being posted by multiple profiles. None-automated content is posted by different people for identical profiles working in shifts. I would guess they have something like monstrous SMM marketing platform some posts are automated some manual.
• krapp 10y ago
  Unfortunately, one person's troll army is another person's truth brigade.