LNK: How Troll Operations Work

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Haven't checked all links but tell me what you think.

Check it out:

An introduction to Trolls, Sock Puppets and Hasbara Shills
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLspb1v6E5U

How Shadow Groups Manipulate Internet Opinion and Debate
http://consciouslifenews.com/paid-internet-shill-shadowy-groups-manipulate-internet-opinion-debate/1147073/

Western spy agencies build 'cyber magicians' to manipulate online discourse
http://rt.com/news/five-eyes-online-manipulation-deception-564/

How the Government Manipulates Your Thoughts Online
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUWnGXAfabA

Revealed: US spy operation that manipulates social media
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/mar/17/us-spy-operation-social-networks

British army creates team of Facebook warriors
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/jan/31/british-army-facebook-warriors-77th-brigade

CIA Media Infiltration & Operation Mockingbird | Brainwash Update
http://youtu.be/fQl9H-gi9NE

Governments Hire Web Trolls to Sway Public Opinion
http://youtu.be/7zVgy9Jk0Ec

Paid Gov't and Corporate Internet Trolls Are Real
http://21stcenturywire.com/2014/03/01/paid-govt-and-corporate-internet-trolls-are-real/

How Covert Agents Infiltrate the Internet to Manipulate, Deceive, and Destroy Reputations
https://theintercept.com/2014/02/24/jtrig-manipulation/

Censorship 2.0: Shadowy forces controlling online conversations
http://www.digitalnewsasia.com/digital-economy/censorship-shadowy-forces-controlling-online-conversations

Yes, There Are Paid Government Trolls On Social Media, Blogs, Forums And Websites
http://filmingcops.com/yes-there-are-paid-government-trolls-on-social-media-blogs-forums-and-websites/

The Secret Life of Gov. Paid Trolls
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzjFGA6uZBg

The Secret Playbook of Internet Trolls
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2014/08/trolls-whats-confusing-nature-game.html

Is BP 'trolling' its Facebook critics?
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2013/11/bp-trolling-facebook-critics-20131112104514166549.html

Government Trolls Are Using "Psychology-Based Influence Techniques" On YouTube, Facebook And Twitter
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-07-02/government-trolls-are-using-psychology-based-influence-techniques-youtube-facebook-a

http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2015/07/government-trolls-are-using-psychology-based-influence-techniques-on-youtube-facebook-and-twitter.html

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x34fzcl

Federal government routinely hires internet trolls, shills to monitor chat rooms, disrupt article comment sections
http://www.naturalnews.com/042093_internet_trolls_chat_rooms_federal_government.html

CIA-Sponsored Trolls Monitor Social Media & Interact With Users to Discredit Factual Information
https://occupycorporatism.com/cia-sponsored-trolls-monitor-social-media-interact-with-users-to-discredit-factual-information/

Gagging the Nation: Government and Corporate Trolls on the Internet
How people are paid to cause virtual war
http://naturalsociety.com/gagging-the-nation-government-and-corporate-trolls-on-the-internet/

Government Uses Psy-ops, Trolls, Propaganda to Push “Conformity”
http://www.thenewamerican.com/world-news/europe/item/21215-government-uses-psy-ops-trolls-propaganda-to-push-conformity

How To Identify Trolls And Forum Spies
http://govtslaves.info/how-to-identify-trolls-and-forum-spies/

CTV Confirms Government(s) employing Internet Trolls, Shills & PR Agents to 'correct misinformation'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpVUYGcgtjw

Online Government Trolls Have Infiltrated the Internet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egjqYxow_34

Government Sponsored Social Media Trolls with Fergus Hodgson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqwt_J4ws88

Proof! Paid Shill Admits Federal Government Hires Trolls to Attack Public Social Media!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFMe8r3BTXY

TROLLS ! Government disinfo! Cointelpro
https://youtu.be/o_JF1jn24Gc

CIA-Sponsored Trolls Monitor Internet & Interact With Users to Discredit Factual Information
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=6f2_1355313666

AK trolls paid at least TL 1,000 a month, daily reports
http://www.todayszaman.com/anasayfa_ak-trolls-paid-at-least-tl-1000-a-month-daily-reports_400156.html

Proof of Government Paid Internet Trolls and Free Energy Debunkers
https://vimeo.com/131977121

New NSA Docs Confirm Long-Held Blogger Fears: There Are Government Trolls Among Us
http://personalliberty.com/new-nsa-docs-confirm-long-held-blogger-fears-there-are-government-trolls-among-us/

How to Identify and Remove Facebook Trolls, Gang-Stalkers, and Disinfo Agents
http://www.gnosticmedia.com/IdentifyRemoveFacebookTrollsAgents

How To Spot An Online Troll
http://burners.me/2014/12/12/how-to-spot-an-online-troll/

Internet Trolls Are Narcissists, Psychopaths, and Sadists
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/your-online-secrets/201409/internet-trolls-are-narcissists-psychopaths-and-sadists

Gang stalking and harassment
http://jbhfile.com/harm_gang.html

Gang Stalking
http://gangstalkingworld.wordpress.com/2008/01/03/what-is-gang-stalking/

The Gentleman's Guide To Forum Spies (spooks, feds, etc.)
http://pastebin.com/irj4Fyd5

Government Spies & Internet Trolls: What you should KNOW!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2F_y1I-ggkw

Internet Trolls May be Trained Government Agents According to Leaked Document
http://healthimpactnews.com/2014/internet-trolls-may-be-trained-government-agents-according-to-leaked-document/

Pay for Comments – Confessions of a Paid Disinformation Internet Shill
http://wakeup-world.com/2012/10/03/pay-for-comments-confessions-of-a-paid-disinformation-internet-shill/

Israeli students to get $2,000 to spread state propaganda on Facebook
https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/israeli-students-get-2000-spread-state-propaganda-facebook

Right wing trolls get paid by the post
http://www.urban75.net/forums/threads/right-wing-trolls-get-paid-by-the-post.319277/

A warning about paid trolls on social media
http://antinuclear.net/2015/05/04/a-warning-about-paid-trolls-on-social-media/

Another Snowden Revelation: Paid Government Internet Trolls Are Real!
http://news.dethronethebanksters.com/another-snowden-revelation-paid-government-internet-trolls-are-real-detailed-slideshow-included/feed

VID: Noam Chomsky on Propaganda - The Big Idea - Interview with Andrew Marr

"Here, history was kind enough to set one up for us. The watergate exposure happened to take place at exactly the same time as another set of exposures, namely the exposures of Cointel Pro"

When the interviewer asks for clarification, Mr. Chomsky responds "The fact that you have to ASK me what COINTELPRO is, but you know what Watergate is, is the glaring example"

The interviewer (a well read journalist) asks for more information on Cointelpro, to which Mr. Chomsky responds "Its interesting that I have to explain it, because its vastly more significant than watergate, that already makes my point."

"The Big Idea" - a half hour interview between Noam Chomsky and British journalist Andrew Marr,

first aired by the BBC in February 1996.  

Transcript available at http://www.aithne.net/index.php?e=news&id=4&lang=0  .

2014-11-18: English subtitles added.

If you're interested in more recent examples of propaganda in the British media,

please see http://www.medialens.org

ESSAY: The FBI's Covert Operations Against Leonard Peltier and the American Indian Movement

March 11, 2014

 After all of the atrocious treatment of the American Indian population by the US Government, more bullets have been fired in attempts to seal the indigenous peoples' fates. Nearly 40 years ago Leonard Peltier, an Ojibway and Dakota Souix Indian, was convicted of the murder of two FBI agents in what was called an "execution-style" murder, and has since spent his time in prison serving two consecutive life sentences. Though he was found guilty, many questions about the murders and his trial have been raised, to no avail. Both sides of the story are subjective; both parties involved have clear reasons to bend the truth, but one incontrovertible truth stands out. The American Indian Movement (AIM), a group that Mr Peltier is member of, was a long-standing target of the FBI's Cointelpro operations, which were secretive and illegal programs focused on controlling political and social movements that were seen as subversive to American ideals. Cointelpro operations were in heavy use against AIM and its participants, focused on subverting power from the traditional Indian rights movement through many violent and under-handed maneuvers. Given Cointelpro's dubious history, Mr Peltier should be seen as an innocent political prisoner, who was part of a much larger operation against the South Dakota Indians.

 Leonard Peltier was convicted on June 1st, 1977, two years after the murders of Special Agents Jack Coler and Ron Williams, which occurred on June 26, 1975. Both parties involved agree on the date that the murders took place, but beyond that point the two stories sharply diverge. The FBI states that the agents were following a car which turned onto the private property of the Jumping Bull Compound, with a warrant for Jimmy Eagle, when a gunfight broke out. In his own journals, Prison Writings, Mr Peltier describes the day that the murders happened as chaotic; he says that he was awakened by the sounds of distant gunshots (123). He also clarifies that any shooting the Indians did was purely in self defense (125). Curiously, Bob Robideau, who was present and acquitted of any charges, says "they didn't even try to take cover" (Churchill and Wall 239). The FBI claims that their agents were fired on unprovoked, backing this up with information from radio communications; the fact that these transmissions were never released or presented as evidence in his trial calls into doubt the FBI's claims. Other quasi-facts and unethical practices aided the FBI's case against Mr Peltier, including, but not limited to, perjury, coercion of witnesses and falsification of evidence. Added to this is extensive evidence released through Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests which show that the FBI was targeting AIM at the time of the murders, and was deeply influential in the Anti-AIM policies of the purported Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) , which worked through political means, and the Guardians of Oglala Nation (GOONs), which utilized violence.

 All of the controversial strategies used by the FBI to convict Peltier fall under the goals of Cointelpro, or the "Counter Intelligence Program." In the paper The Patterning of Repression, David Cunningham quotes John Edgar Hoover, the FBI's founder and director, who describes the Cointelpro programs as being established to "covertly 'expose, disrupt, misdirect, discredit, or otherwise neutralize' the activities of FBI targets" (209). They have operated in some form since the 1930's, and though they were officially abolished in 1971, the article Torture in the US Prison System asserts that the use of these tactics continue to this day (Battaglia and Randolph 1). That the programs were illicit was never a question; William C. Sullivan, a former director with the FBI, intimates "[N]ever once did I hear anybody, including myself, raise the questions: 'Is this course of action which we have agreed upon lawful, is it legal, is it moral and ethical?'" (Cunningham 214). Cointelpro operations were specifically used against organizations and individuals the FBI deemed threats to national security or subversive to American values, such as the Black Panther Party, Martin Luther King, various American Communists, and also AIM.

In the book Agents of Repression, authors Churchill and Wade (both active AIM members) detail the FBI's covert operations against AIM, and shed much light on the extensive background information and occurrences of the pivotal day when the two agents were murdered. In his resignation letter, ex-commissioner of the South Dakota State Criminal Justice Commission David Holman states:

 "I have become increasingly aware of the fact that Native Americans who hold traditional views and are political activists are singled out for special attention by the criminal justice system in South Dakota. Members of the American Indian Movement, in particular, are single out for harassment. " (qtd. in Churchill and Wall 179)

 AIM is an indigenous rights movement created to protect the rights and way of life of traditional Indians. Due to divisions in the political views of Reservation Indians, the movement was created to preserve Indian customs, religion, and sovereignty. Non-traditional Indians advocate assimilation into main-stream America; traditionalists petition for Indians to keep their ways and those of the dominant culture separate. These differences set the stage for an infiltration on a grand scale; the traditionalists would be targeted by the FBI. Charged as being a leader of AIM (which he refutes), Mr Peltier was chosen as a mark to quiet political actions by traditional Indians. He joined AIM in the late 1960's, and describes the movement as "a collectivity of leaders working in loose unison ... [for] our people's survival" (96). He also states that "No one person or special group of people runs AIM" (97). He was solely motivated by the injustice and violence against, and a sense of pride for, his own people. That he was chosen as the lone killer is anomalous; there were a number of others involved in the defense at Pine Ridge that day, but only two other Indians were arrested, arraigned, and subsequently released, Bob Robideau, and Darelle Butler. Perhaps it only takes one Indian to kill a revolution?

Given the long history of mistreatment of the Natives of the Americas, those who perpetrate greater injustices against them should be seen through circumspect vision. The American prison population already greatly exceeds that of other prison populations world-wide, and since the 1960's, dozens of so-called "political prisoners" have been incarcerated, most without any possibility of living real lives of freedom again. These jailings have ignited many social movements, and generations of highly emotional responses. One such incarcerated soul is Leonard Peltier, who for nearly 40 years has been in numerous prisons, where he has been repeatedly abused and often placed into solitary confinement. He has been subjected to government sanctioned torture, and getting older in age, is also suffering from failing health. Many documents available arguing his guilt or innocence seem to miss the connection between Cointelpro and the AIM movement, falling back to using second-hand evidence, which is riddled with convincing yet emotionally swaying arguments. In the light of the evidence from Churchill and Cunningham, it is clear that Mr Peltier is ultimately a scape goat to further the FBI's political aims, and should be freed immediately at the risk of dying in prison as an innocent man.


Works Cited
Battaglia, Dan and Preston Randolph. "Torture in the US Prison System: The Endless Torture of Leonard Peltier." truth-out.org; n.p. Aug 2011. Web. 21 May 2013
Ward, Churchill, and Jim Vander Wall. Agents of Repression: The FBI's Secret Wars Against the Black Panther Party and the American Indian Movement. Boston: South End Press 1988. Print
Cunningham, David. "The Patterning of Repression: FBI Counterintelligence and the New Left." Social Forces 82.2003: 209-240. EBSCO. Web. 27 Feb 2014
Peltier, Leonard. Prison Writings: My Life is My Sun Dance.  Ed. Harvey Arden. New York: St. Martins Griffin, 1999. Print