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       A Polish Troll Farm?
       By: Aliph Date: November 1, 2019, 10:54 am
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       An article in today’s Guardian about the discovering of a Polish
       troll farm made me nostalgic. I still miss a famous troll that
       was active on a so-called language learning website based in
       Shanghai and helped to set up this Even Greener forum for the
       outcasts of Italki.She was my favorite Polish troll. She left
       the board some months ago. Was/Is she working for the Troll Farm
       in Wroclaw?
  HTML https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/nov/01/undercover-reporter-reveals-life-in-a-polish-troll-farm?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
       What do you think about this article? Doesn’t it remind you
       about our beloved liberal Lost Minion?
       BTW How beautiful the city of Wroclaw looks! I must absolutely
       go there someday.
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       Re: A Polish Troll Farm?
       By: MartinSR Date: November 2, 2019, 1:48 pm
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       Wroclaw is a very nice place to visit, so it is always a good
       idea. It's constantly developing and attracts many young people
       to come and work in many newly created companies. The one
       described is probably one of them.
       I'm not surprised that those companies exist. I stopped reading
       comments under articles in our internet long years ago. Since a
       few years most comments are strongly polarised and it has
       nothing in common with a discussion. It really looks like the
       war of trolls and the idea that someone is in charge of the
       keeping the balance by "adding some oil to the fire" on one or
       on the other side, looks very probable and explains a lot.
       Joining this kind of "discussion" means being caught and serving
       as another wheel in their machine.
       It looks always the same. A group of people, let's say teachers,
       miners, medical staff, people with disabilities, starts
       protesting against the officials and fighting for their
       rights... and as soon as they seem to get some sympathy from the
       society, a lot of fake news and, private "opinions" and
       so-called thrilling "real life stories" appear in the internet
       trying to portrait the protesting group as rascals who do their
       job very bad, steal public money, and are obviously paid agents
       of enemies (however we define them).
       Recently the was a situation revealed in media, that one high
       official of public administration was paying the troll for
       fabrication of fake news against his political opponents.
       On a free market competition between companies the things are
       not so clear as we sometimes think. There are companies who will
       contact you and offer that for a small monthly fee they will
       write good opinions about your products and services... some of
       them suggest that they can write bad opinions about your
       competitors too (unless one of them not has paid them earlier...
       or even if he paid - who can prove that?).
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