Troll factory and the methodology, how it acts?

Troll factory and the methodology, how it acts?

1. How the troll factory is working?

Troll factory acts like some news office, but the product of that thing is hoax information and turning the discussions to more comfortable topics. The trolls are also used to force people to close their blogs and homepages, and then the people, who are making those things would tell, that somebody has been closed the blog, "because the feedback has been bad".

So this is the thing, what we must understand. Those people are believing that they can force people to make stop writings, and maybe they would start to give comments also for vlogs and other social media people.

2. Trollers need publicity

And then those things are introduced as the "great victories" and then somebody would say, how to keep the blog secure, and how stupid somebody would be if that person dares to write something in the media. But how those troll-writers act? The problem in the troll-making is that the social media accounts, what are used in this kind of actions will be closed.

If the accounts, what is used in this kind of things are made in Russia, that means that they are under the special surveillance, because GRU might use them for illegal operations. So those accounts must make in the western world or outside of Russian territory.

3. How the purpose of troll account is hidden?

The thing works that the assistants would open the Google-accounts, while they have been in the western countries like Finland. Then those accounts are given to the trollers, who operate their social media accounts from Russia, by using straight the account.

Or by using some VPN-or other remote connection to operate the trolling computers from Russia, and in the last case, there would be no trace between Russia and the social media account, because that account is operated by using a remote computer, what physical location is outside of borders, and the laptop computer is enough in this case.

There is one thing, what makes this kind of operations little bit complicated is, that the internet connection, what is used in that thing can be cut, and there must be somebody, who handles the updating and other things, what allows the troller make the connection, if that thing is hidden in some flat. But when the account is marked as the troll-account, that would cause the closing that thing.

Troll factory and information warfare

Troll factory and information warfare

Social media is a very important tool for propagandists

The major targets for troll makers are the respected person, who would give effect to information if they would re-share some propaganda. If those people would share propaganda, that contact with many people on the Internet. Many times the troll or political propaganda is looking very much "real" information, but if we would look at that data more careful, there is shared only one side views of the things.

The major thing in troll makers is to target their strike to the audience, where it makes the greatest effect. One of the biggest points of information operations is that when people are sharing false information, they are extending rumors, and this is the purpose of the troll makers. The prime target for those people are the centers of the social network, who are respected persons in their social network.

One idea is to benefit the obey, what those people face in the world. Because some person has respect, that means that people are not want to show that different opinions than this person has. So the troll maker wants to benefit the social position of some member of the social network. The idea is that when the person with respect would believe something, that thing would scale over the rest of the group.

If a big group of the people starts to believe or share something, they would get more and more readers to trolls. The big group of people has big social mass in social media, and that would deliver the information to many people by benefiting those social networks.

The thing is that the prime troll itself might be very easy to notice as the false information, but the idea of it is that other people will tell about that thing by using their own words. That would cause the effect, that the rumor becomes the truth in the mind of the people. If an adult people see some trolls, that person might think that is naive or shares only one part thoughts about the things, what is claimed to happen.

Children cannot separate right or wrong information

But when this kind of things is told to children, that thing would seem true, and if the troll maker is an adult or if that adult claims to represent some kind of official authority, would children believe this kind of things. And one of the best things, what Russian troll maker would tell to the youngster is being the member of FSB, "what is one kind of police". In this case, the propagandist claims to be the same kind of policeman like in some person in a police car in western society. And in the information warfare is used the same method as in some school harassment cases. There are many people, who have read the troll, and somehow they have pressed "like" by accident. After that, the troll maker would start to tell people, that some person pushes "like".

The idea is the same as in the schoolyard, where a group of youngsters is coming to some person and say, that if you are not saying "yes" we will beat that person. Then those persons would go to the teacher and say, that "here is a couple of witnesses, who are seeing, that some inmate has this or that opinion". The best way to notice, if the thing is a troll, is that there is used the threat of violence or some other kind of force. That means if somebody has a different kind of opinions, this inmate would just yell to silent.