Prigozhin’s troll farm hired large numbers of people to pose as Americans on social media. These fake Americans posted pro-Russian comments, trying to sway public opinion.
But it’s not easy to pose as an American. You need a nuanced understanding of American realities and a great knowledge of the English language. This is why job applicants had to write an essay describing their lives as typical Americans.
Here is one such essay:
Prigozhin is dead but troll farms go on churning out this kind of brilliance.
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“describing their lives as typical Americans”
Do you have a link where more can be found? I could read these all day….
I sense a business opportunity…. to edit their posts before they can be published… using my status as a native speaker to guide and advise them…. “Trust me ‘stupid pig fvcker’ means ‘Great guy’ in modern usage…”
“Believe me, nothing can express appreciation and admiration for russia than calling it ‘a broken sh|thouse’ I know it sounds weird… but who’s the native speaker here?”
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This is a Christo Grozev investigation from a couple of years ago: https://twitter.com/christogrozev/status/1695964942447386841?t=ZA00NEau1n48XNa6Qf52GA&s=19
It’s a linguist’s dream.
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” one such essay”
I get everything I think…. ‘try to resend that I learn’ = want me to go back to school…
“solve questions with his enemies” = attack / pay back his enemies…
but… “I usually tune my pow on my Jennifer” ??? is this a translation of a russian idiom? cause…. I got nothing there….
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I’m struggling with that one myself. Anybody?
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I read this blogger, which writes mainly in Russian, but here thought to share his post in English (not long):
// The Russian unconventional psychology behind the war in Ukraine, which I will refer to as the ZZ-war — the Double-Zombie-War — is complicated. The ZZ-war has yielded some non-trivial insights applicable to social engineering, a professional interest of mine.
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there is an obvious yet overlooked fact that reveals the main reasons for the immoral, illogical, and devastating character of the ZZ-war: The ZZ-war is not rational, it is scientific.
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if we accept the modern meaning of the word “science”.
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Of course, the science behind these decisions is not the American science. It is the Russian science. I will refer them to as the A-science and the R-science.
https://vit-r.dreamwidth.org/1192014.html
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That was hilarious. 🙂
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Most obvious tell is the lack of articles.
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