"The secretive, multimillion-dollar disinformation campaign, which U.S. officials said was called the “Translator Project,” sought to undermine Clinton, bolster Donald Trump and turn Americans against each other — all from the remove of thousands of miles away, in an office building in St. Petersburg. ... The Russians involved in the campaign executed it with almost perfect pitch — learning to mimic the way Americans talk online about politics so well that real Americans with whom they interacted found them in no way suspicious. Such deception did not happen by accident. Russian trolls worked hard to sound like Americans and camouflage their political messages in other content."
Sunday, February 18, 2018
POWERFUL Big Nugget of the Day: The Anatomy of the Russian "Campaign" of 2016
The 21st-century Russian sleeper agent is a troll with an American accent from the Washington Post
"The secretive, multimillion-dollar disinformation campaign, which U.S. officials said was called the “Translator Project,” sought to undermine Clinton, bolster Donald Trump and turn Americans against each other — all from the remove of thousands of miles away, in an office building in St. Petersburg. ... The Russians involved in the campaign executed it with almost perfect pitch — learning to mimic the way Americans talk online about politics so well that real Americans with whom they interacted found them in no way suspicious. Such deception did not happen by accident. Russian trolls worked hard to sound like Americans and camouflage their political messages in other content."
"The secretive, multimillion-dollar disinformation campaign, which U.S. officials said was called the “Translator Project,” sought to undermine Clinton, bolster Donald Trump and turn Americans against each other — all from the remove of thousands of miles away, in an office building in St. Petersburg. ... The Russians involved in the campaign executed it with almost perfect pitch — learning to mimic the way Americans talk online about politics so well that real Americans with whom they interacted found them in no way suspicious. Such deception did not happen by accident. Russian trolls worked hard to sound like Americans and camouflage their political messages in other content."
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