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Troll Farms And Russian Bots Are 'Fixing' Google
Dominic Gwinn July 05, 2018 01:42 PM
A campaign to influence the 2018 election is in full effect using a combination of Google trickery and Twitter bots, and it looks a lot like the 2016 Russian fuckery. The Daily Beast reports that since September 2017, an anonymous source has been paying bloggers in Indonesia and India to write a ton of nice stories about about people involved in Trump-Russia. The intent is to bury any bad stories about Trump, his kids, Felix Sater, former Russian trade minister Tevfik Arif, and Bayrock Group, the mob-owned real estate group used to launder dirty dollars into repatriated rubbles (and vice-versa).

The scheme is pretty simple: Write a bunch of blog posts for dummy websites. Because of the way Google's algorithm works, the mass of junk will appear before something more reputable, like a WaPo report detailing how Bayrock was used as a transnational money laundering operation.

Think of it like looking for a needle in a haystack, except someone keeps pouring more and more hay on top of you.

That's not the only evidence of internet fuckery; another report by indy media outlet Arc Digital has found a new Russian influence campaign on Twitter. Called the "WalkAway Movement," it claims to be a "grassroots" effort to lead Democrats who are "walking away" from the party over a perceived lack of civility. In reality, it's an astroturf social media campaign pushed by pro-Trump blowhards and Russian state-owned media.