Intressant läsning om man vill förstå ryzzens ekosystem för propaganda. Jag tror det finns fler betalda troll än man tror.
According to the Russian media outlet Fontanka, the group is offering 45,000 roubles a month (nearly €600) to post 200 comments a day on social networks.
https://www.euractiv.com/section/digital/news/russia-uses-troll-factory-to-spread-war-propaganda-online-uk-says/
In line with that goal, this report draws on publicly
available reporting to provide an overview
of Russia’s disinformation and propaganda
ecosystem. Russia’s disinformation and propaganda
ecosystem is the collection of official, proxy,
and unattributed communication channels and
platforms that Russia uses to create and amplify
false narratives. The ecosystem consists of five
main pillars: official government communications,
state-funded global messaging, cultivation of
proxy sources, weaponization of social media, and
cyber-enabled disinformation. The Kremlin bears
direct responsibility for cultivating these tactics
and platforms as part of its approach to using
information as a weapon. It invests massively in its
propaganda channels, its intelligence services and
its proxies to conduct malicious cyber activity to
support their disinformation efforts, and it leverages
outlets that masquerade as news sites or research
institutions to spread these false and misleading
narratives. This report also focuses specific attention
on Russia’s tactic of leveraging proxy voices
that proliferate pro-Kremlin disinformation and
propaganda. It includes profiles on a cross section
of outlets playing this role within the broader
ecosystem, and it explains how they serve as critical
connective tissue to the other pillars within the
broader ecosystem.
https://www.state.gov/russias-pillars-of-disinformation-and-propaganda-report/