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US doesn't openly acknowledge existence of troll factories, but there're several institutions in the US created at least in the last ten years to "fight Russia
by anticodon 5y ago
US doesn't openly acknowledge existence of troll factories, but there're several institutions in the US created at least in the last ten years to "fight Russia presence on the Internet". They're associated with Pentagon and CIA. What would they do with all their huge budgets?
Also, until 2 years ago, there were tons of identical comments posted under different nicknames on different social networks.
E.g. under different unrelated videos on YouTube about new Russian ship or airplane, you'd see identical comments saying something: "It's shit, government should stop wasting money to build inferior technology and buy it from the West and money are better spent on retired people".
I've even made tons of screenshots as evidence, with word for word identical comments under different videos from different nicknames. Sometimes there were even duplicates from different nicknames under the same video or article.
Of course, technology became more sophisticated since then.
And I'm not even starting about "legitimate" US propaganda translated non-stop by media outlets like Radio Freedom, and tons of other medias that operate on the territory of Russia, are funded from US budget (sometimes directly, sometimes indirectly) and the point of their existence is the same: to translate nonsense about Russia in Russian non-stop. E.g. gather all the crimes and translate them all day non-stop causing a depression in Russian listeners and viewers that nothing good happens in Russia, that it's all just a "Putin's GULAG".
You go on the street and see new roads, new houses, expensive cars, happy people, no crime, clean streets. You open Radio Freedom or any other US-funded website or magazine, and it's all depression, sadness, violent crime...
It's really annoying and I even think that people even have some kind of immunity now against this kind of US propaganda because we're bombarded with it non-stop since 1991.