Undercover reporter reveals life in a Polish troll farm

Re:Undercover reporter reveals life in a Polish troll farm by RobertRoberts on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @12:46AM (#21449985)

The leader of a mob spouts irrational things, not logic or sound reasoning. The goal is to inspire outrage and offence not present sound solutions. Stir up strife and ignite passion in the masses.

This is why they use irrationality as a weapon.

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Re:Undercover reporter reveals life in a Polish troll farm by antepodius on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @06:16AM (#21451336)

Seems like a poor strategy to me. You can do that sort of thing to rile up the choir, but you have to actually preach to the non-believers.

An [x] shill making poor arguments the those on the fence is going to do less good for their employers than a shill making the strongest possible case for [x].

If anything, you'd assume the 'irrational' nuclear shills are actually being paid by natural gas and renewables interests, and vice-versa, to make the other side seem obnoxious and crazy.

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Re:Undercover reporter reveals life in a Polish troll farm by RobertRoberts on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @09:47AM (#21452802)

I will give you an example from two camps, whom I have family that are both infected by:

Republicans: (fox news) Illegals are taking over America and stealing your jobs!

Democrats: (cnn) Conservatives are hate filled racists who hate equality!

The same thing is happening online because this works with the masses.

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Re:Undercover reporter reveals life in a Polish troll farm by antepodius on Sunday November 10, 2019 @05:14AM (#21497359)

Yeah. Those messages are aimed at the choir. They're not meant to convert.

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