The Internet Research Agency, the famous propaganda outfit founded by now-former Putin crony and scumbag entrepreneur Yevgeny Prigozhin to meddle in US elections, is shutting down after Prigozhin’s aborted mutiny by his other business, the Wagner Mercenary Group, Insider reports.
The end of the IRA closes a unique and particularly fucking stupid chapter in American history in which millions of pro-MAGA users of social media and news comment platforms found themselves – often correctly – accused of being paid Russian trolls, and not a small number of them using Disqus on none other than The Hill during the Trump years. Here’s a few likely examples of them:
This “Cleveland, Ohio”-based “Concerned mother of four beautiful children” stopped showing up at The Hill after yours truly pointed out “she” had stolen her avatar pic from a YouTube video titled “African-American women in business,” and the woman in the pic’s real name is Ola Jackson.
Mark Davis • 5 years ago
️Senators Kamala Harris and Bernie Sanders love Open Borders and low wage labor. Open borders literally seeps from their Pores!
Thu, 1/18/2018 10:44 PM on ‘House approves spending bill, shifting shutdown drama to Senate’
This “U of Michigan Grad. Father of four. Business Owner. Made in the USA,” stole “his” avatar pic from a tattoo artist named Luke Wessman (the pic in the link is clearly from the same photo shoot).
John Gambino • 5 years ago
️I am a Marine veteran and I have scheduled our family vacation to attend Trump’s military parade on Veterans Day! It will be a tremendous day of American celebration for freedom and to honor our great military!
Sat, 3/10/2018 6:08 PM on ‘Trump’s infrastructure push hits wall in Congress’
“John Gambino” description written almost exactly the same as “Mark Davis”: “Marine Vet. Penn St. grad. Father of four. Business Owner.” Avatar hilariously taken from GlobalFight.com, a site for gay male pro wrestling and MMA enthusiasts – though it may not have originated there. The link is to a tweet with the photo, not GlobalFight.com itself. You probably don’t want to see GlobalFight.
David L. Jackson • 5 years ago • edited
️Obama granted amnesty to 53,000 illegal aliens — 7% of all DACA recipients — with existing criminal convictions under Pres. Obama’s DACA executive amnesty. Of those criminal aliens approved for DACA, 10 were granted status despite being arrested for murder. Additionally, the DHS report revealed that almost 8,000 more illegal aliens ended up with criminal charges after they were granted amnesty through the program. The data also show that of those criminal DACA recipients, 231 were charged with rape, 1500 allegedly committed sex crimes
Mon, 6/18/2018 7:18 PM on ‘Nielsen defends family separations: ‘Congress alone can fix it”
Another “Black” Conservative pushing the MAGA bullshit, said “he” was a “Howard University grad. Baltimore Investment Banker.” Avatar stolen from God knows where, but it shows up on Pinterest.
Cindy McDouglass-Backney • 4 years ago
️2016 called, honey. It wants your insults and your relative morality back.
Wed, 3/20/2019 4:14 PM on ‘New Zealand gang vows to stand guard outside mosque for first Friday prayer since terror attack’
They started getting a little bit more sophisticated with their English conversational skills later on in the Trump years – or this was a really douchey American troll who decided to just steal a pic from a British cosmetics YouTuber named Tricia Cusden and say “she” was “Born in IL. I like to paint, take care of my plants, and spend time with my family and especially my grandkids!”
DAILY • 4 years ago
BRING IT ON! IN 2020 PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP WILL WIN THE U.S. PRESIDENCY IN A LANDSLIDE, REPUBLICANS WILL HOLD THE SENATE AND WIN BACK THE HOUSE. THE FIRST TASK IN 2021 FOR REPUBLICANS MUST BE TO REPEAL AND REPLACE DISASTROUS OBAMACARE!
Tue, 9/24/2019 3:39 PM on ‘2020 Democrats Call for Impeachment: ‘The President Is a Criminal’’
No story about the Internet Research Agency’s hall of shame would be complete without the most prolific of them all, the bot-like propagandist we unaffectionately called CAPS AND BOLD DOUCHE. Famous for his nonsensical Disqus monikers like SUPER, MONT, FIRE, GOOD!, FIGHT!, BRONK, NEUTRON, DUDDO, DANDEV, STAN, LITEON, LAPOR, TUNDRO, LEOPARD among many, many others, it was hard to conclude anything other than that he was one of Prigozhin’s interns.
Which brings us back to what was supposed to be the point of the story: The Internet Research Agency is no more, but there are probably other Russian entities like it still looking to spread disinformation on American websites and social media platforms ahead of the 2024 election. And even if there weren’t, we’d still have millions of homegrown MAGAmericans spewing more or less the same shit. It’ll also be harder to call them out as we’re now in the day and age of AI-generated faces that can’t be tracked down through reverse image searches like we did with the ones above were – minus good old Caps and Bold Douche, of course. He never used an avatar.
Alicia Jones • 5 years ago
️2-in-3 Americans Say They Support 2020 Census Asking if Residents are U.S. Citizens
Mon, 6/18/2018 7:31 PM on ‘Nielsen defends family separations: ‘Congress alone can fix it”