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Are there less DU trolls now that Russia is busy annihilating Ukraine? (Original Post)
mysteryowl
Mar 2022
OP
You're not seeing them because the jury system and the MIR Team keeps them hammered down
Brother Buzz
Mar 2022
#8
NewHendoLib
(60,014 posts)1. the work in MIRT is pretty typical. Some regular trolls, some spammers
nothing too out of the ordinary.
Shellback Squid
(8,914 posts)2. never saw any, no troll posts about Ukraine
gab13by13
(21,304 posts)4. The closest thing I saw
was people pushing the no fly zone, but those people were probably not trolls.
The GQP has flipped its script to the narrative that president Biden isn't doing enough.
Brother Buzz
(36,416 posts)8. You're not seeing them because the jury system and the MIR Team keeps them hammered down
A typical pro Putin post on the big board lasts for eight to fifteen minutes on the big board, then DING-DONG, the pizza is delivered.
ecstatic
(32,685 posts)3. I imagine their funding is completely gone at this point
unless they work for free?
mysteryowl
(7,376 posts)5. Could be true.
LudwigPastorius
(9,137 posts)9. I always figured they just work for bathtub vodka.
...because most of them have the debating skills of your typical water-headed alky.
dweller
(23,628 posts)6. ssshhhh ...
weah hunting wusskie twolls
✌🏻
Spider Jerusalem
(21,786 posts)7. They focus more on Twitter and Facebook
where botnets can amplify content through retweets/likes+shares with fake replies.