Eric Czuleger
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Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Putin's chef.
Yeah. He had a catastrophic airplane failure. Yeah. Crazy. Surface to air missile. Yeah. They shouldn't have been flying that missile there. What bad luck. So he also had, I think it was called the Internet Research Organization. And the Internet Research Organization was the Russian troll farm, right?
Yeah. He had a catastrophic airplane failure. Yeah. Crazy. Surface to air missile. Yeah. They shouldn't have been flying that missile there. What bad luck. So he also had, I think it was called the Internet Research Organization. And the Internet Research Organization was the Russian troll farm, right?
Yeah. He had a catastrophic airplane failure. Yeah. Crazy. Surface to air missile. Yeah. They shouldn't have been flying that missile there. What bad luck. So he also had, I think it was called the Internet Research Organization. And the Internet Research Organization was the Russian troll farm, right?
And I mean, it just sounded like you read reports from the people who were working in these troll farms. And the conditions sound brutal. Like, you know, you've got to...
And I mean, it just sounded like you read reports from the people who were working in these troll farms. And the conditions sound brutal. Like, you know, you've got to...
And I mean, it just sounded like you read reports from the people who were working in these troll farms. And the conditions sound brutal. Like, you know, you've got to...
write something like 700 posts a day um you know either supporting or denying or just just fighting with people online under the guise of you know an american from texas or whatever um and uh at a certain point they were like well Can we make things happen in the real world from online?
write something like 700 posts a day um you know either supporting or denying or just just fighting with people online under the guise of you know an american from texas or whatever um and uh at a certain point they were like well Can we make things happen in the real world from online?
write something like 700 posts a day um you know either supporting or denying or just just fighting with people online under the guise of you know an american from texas or whatever um and uh at a certain point they were like well Can we make things happen in the real world from online?
And so they did this one operation that I just think is hilarious and brilliant, which was it was called Free Hot Dogs. And they created an event on Facebook in Central Park in New York City that was just like free hot dogs. We're going to have free hot dogs in Central Park. There were no free hot dogs, spoiler alert.
And so they did this one operation that I just think is hilarious and brilliant, which was it was called Free Hot Dogs. And they created an event on Facebook in Central Park in New York City that was just like free hot dogs. We're going to have free hot dogs in Central Park. There were no free hot dogs, spoiler alert.
And so they did this one operation that I just think is hilarious and brilliant, which was it was called Free Hot Dogs. And they created an event on Facebook in Central Park in New York City that was just like free hot dogs. We're going to have free hot dogs in Central Park. There were no free hot dogs, spoiler alert.
But what they did was they had a Russian active measures agent go and just like see who showed up. A lot of people showed up for free hot dogs. And so what they found out was they could now make people take real-life action through online events. Now, this changed into full-on demonstrations. So there were these two groups that they were trying to get to fight each other. One was called, like –
But what they did was they had a Russian active measures agent go and just like see who showed up. A lot of people showed up for free hot dogs. And so what they found out was they could now make people take real-life action through online events. Now, this changed into full-on demonstrations. So there were these two groups that they were trying to get to fight each other. One was called, like –
But what they did was they had a Russian active measures agent go and just like see who showed up. A lot of people showed up for free hot dogs. And so what they found out was they could now make people take real-life action through online events. Now, this changed into full-on demonstrations. So there were these two groups that they were trying to get to fight each other. One was called, like –
the heart of Texas, and then the other one was called like, I want to say like USA Muslims, some sort of Islamic thing about Muslims in the United States. And they started essentially like counter protests against both of these groups, but both groups were operated by Russian troll farms. And of course, one group had almost... had a quarter of a million people in it.
the heart of Texas, and then the other one was called like, I want to say like USA Muslims, some sort of Islamic thing about Muslims in the United States. And they started essentially like counter protests against both of these groups, but both groups were operated by Russian troll farms. And of course, one group had almost... had a quarter of a million people in it.
the heart of Texas, and then the other one was called like, I want to say like USA Muslims, some sort of Islamic thing about Muslims in the United States. And they started essentially like counter protests against both of these groups, but both groups were operated by Russian troll farms. And of course, one group had almost... had a quarter of a million people in it.
The other group had a quarter of a million people in it. So suddenly you have real live division and an actual protest and counter protest that was being ginned up from St. Petersburg by a bunch of people posting. And now this process has gotten so much easier that it's insane with artificial intelligence and LLMs. You can have actual agents, not human agents, but LLMs running around the internet.