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Troll farm. A troll farm or troll factory is an institutionalised group of internet trolls that seeks to interfere in political opinions and decision-making. [1] Freedom House 's report showed that 30 governments worldwide (out of 65 covered by the study) paid keyboard armies to spread propaganda and attack critics. [2]
The earliest documented allegations of the existence of "web brigades" appear to be in the April 2003 Vestnik Online article "The Virtual Eye of Big Brother " by French journalist Anna Polyanskaya (a former assistant to assassinated Russian politician Galina Starovoitova [13]) and two other authors, Andrey Krivov and Ivan Lomako.
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History. The concept of Discord came from Jason Citron, who had founded OpenFeint, a social gaming platform for mobile games, [13] and Stanislav Vishnevskiy, who had founded Guildwork, another social gaming platform. Citron sold OpenFeint to GREE in 2011 for US$104 million, [14] which he used to found Hammer & Chisel, a game development studio ...
Team Jorge. Team Jorge is the name given to an outfit of Israeli contractors specialized in the use of malign cyber activities including hacking, sabotage, and bot farm-run social media disinformation campaigns to manipulate the outcomes of elections. [1] One of the organization's primary tools is a software package called Advanced Impact Media ...
Members of the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee traveled to Ukraine and Poland in 2016 and learned about Russian operations to influence their elections. [247] Senator McCain called for a special select committee of the U.S. Senate to investigate Russian meddling in the election, [248] [249] and called election meddling an "act of war". [250]
Kiwi Farms. Kiwi Farms, formerly known as CWCki Forums (/ ˈkwɪki / KWIH-kee), is a web forum that facilitates the discussion and harassment of online figures and communities. Their targets are often subject to organized group trolling and stalking, as well as doxxing and real-life harassment. [3][4][5] These actions have tied Kiwi Farms to ...
Click farm. A click farm is a form of click fraud where a large group of low-paid workers are hired to click on links or buttons for the click fraudster (click farm master or click farmer). The workers click the links, surf the target website for a period of time, and possibly sign up for newsletters prior to clicking another link.