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Best practices for social media shilling

Biznology

A venerable tradition in public relations is the grass-roots campaign. If, on the Internet, no one knows you are a dog, why bother getting real people for your grass-roots campaigns? These fake grass roots campaigns, called astroturfing, caught on about ten years ago and still haven’t died out. . How do I know?

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I was a teenage Russian troll OG

Biznology

Anyone with an internet connection can do it. What I was was part of a very smart, elite, highly-trained, Internet-native team of online covert operatives who spent long hours of our micromanaged time anonymously sneaking around message boards and online forums under the protection of false names, noms de plume , noms de guerre.