Holivar. History of Runet. Part 5. Trolls: Learn, frantic printer, Copper
Holivar. History of Runet. Part 1. Start: California hippies, Spout and the dashing 90s
Holivar. History of Runet. Part 2. Counterculture: populi, marijuana and the Kremlin
Holivar. History of Runet. Part 3. Search engines: Yandex vs Rambler. How not to make an investment
Holivar. History of Runet. Part 4. Mail.ru: games, social networks, Durov
Seattle - the birthplace of grunge, Starbucks and LiveJournal - a blog platform that has had a huge impact on Runet. In 1999, a student at Washington University, Brad Fitzpatrick, thought it would be nice to keep a diary on the Internet and created LiveJournal, in the states in the LiveJournal (LJ) mostly teenagers wrote. In Russia, LJ has become the main platform for reflection on the fate of the fatherland.
Brad Fitzpatrick, founder of LiveJournal
“In the States, posts in LiveJournal resembled the writings of a child, in Russia they posted texts, just like in a newspaper. In the United States, it was as if the child was tapping the keyboard, while you had long, serious texts and a lot of photographs, and in the United States, it was short, with a lot of mistakes, it sucks! But it was fun. We were just playing the fool. "
With the advent of Facebook, the popularity of LiveJournal declined, and continued to grow in Russia. LJ became the platform on which civil society was formed. One of the first to unite motorists struggling with the prevalence of flashing lights on the roads. The community is called "Blue Buckets."
Peter Shkumatov, coordinator of the Blue Bucket Society
“Of course, we were struck by this phenomenon of the LiveJournal. Some of our resonant stories, resonant posts, they were immediately reposted by a huge number of people and as a result we were in the top, even more people were subscribing to us. When you are in a regular forum, you cannot pick up a wave, but with the help of social networks, we began to manage to pick up a wave. Now there are about 600 flashing lights, well, of course it is depressing, but it’s not 20,000 special signals with which we started. ”
Following civic activists in LJ, opposition politicians and anti-corruption investigations by Aleksey Navalny reached out, made his blog the most popular in LJ, and the pro-government media is still called a blogger.
Alexey Navalny, oppositionist
Starting from 2005-2006, when the media were completely cleaned up and a couple of newspapers remained there, the whole political discussion moved to LJ. I, as a politician, as a public figure, as a person who does investigations, I was born in LiveJournal, grew up in LiveJournal, my youth passed in LiveJournal political. If there were no LiveJournal, I would not have been able to engage in any politics at all.
In 2007, LJ was bought by SUP, co-owned by Russian businessman Alexander Mamut, Fitzpatrick arrives in Moscow and discovers that he is the idol of runet, which is literally worn in his hands.
Brad Fitzpatrick, founder of LiveJournal
“The first time I was called to Russia and said - there will be a technical meeting, you will explain how it all works. I flew in and raced ... Parties, parties, parties ... It's time to fly away, I say that we did not discuss anything. And they say, well, you arrive in a couple of months - we will discuss everything. Since then I have been to Russia 11 times. ”
The novel of the founder of LJ with Russia ended in his marriage to a Russian.
The programmer has been working at Google for many years, tired of social networks Fitzpatrick at one time refused the offer of Zuckerberg to work on Facebook and get a small package of shares for this.
“When Facebook went public, I calculated how much I would earn on the shares I refused. It turned out 92 million dollars. So it goes".
In the summer of 2010, fires swept through central Russia, and Moscow was smoked. In a situation where state channels hid the truth, and the Ministry of Emergencies could not cope with the elements, people began to unite to help each other.
Grigory Asmolov, then an employee of the Berkman Center at Harvard, suggested using the Ushahidi platform, created by Kenya volunteers to observe the elections.
Grigory Asmolov, Researcher at King's College London
“I wrote a LiveJournal post about the idea of an aid card on July 31st, 2010. I saw that people react with quite a lot of enthusiasm, and many liked this idea and the main advantage of this platform was that it took us a little more than a day to create it. ”
The art historian Anna Barne suggested in her LJ to collect help for the victims of the fire. A week later, her one-room apartment turned into a warehouse of products and fire-fighting equipment.
Anna Barnet, volunteer
The stream all arrived, arrived. I already stopped closing the door and it was no longer possible to go wash my hair, I just sat there and said that people, here is the money in this envelope, there is pasta here, canned food here, potatoes here. I got fire hoses that I saw for the first time in my life. There are half nuts, I didn’t know what it was then, there was a motor pump with a fence sleeve in the kitchen. We somehow tried to coordinate through this LiveJournal, that is, it really was such a real organization, “Society from Below”.
After the news about the next victims of the fire, Anna published an open letter to Shoigu in her hearts, in which she wrote that she had lost faith in the state, but believed in human kindness. The letter became viral, and Anna's life changed dramatically. During a volunteer firefighting course, she met her future husband, left art history and devoted herself completely to extinguishing forest fires.
“This book is the history of aviation forest protection, I managed to do it when I worked there for 4 years. And if they tell me that there are no real men in Russia, I don’t believe in it at all, because they exist and I personally know at least a couple of hundred. ”
The founders of the “Help Card” project received a Runet Prize in 2010. This was the first successful crowdsourcing project in Russia. The idea of crowdsourcing, the mobilization of Internet users to solve certain problems, was picked up by Navalny with the projects of Rosyama, Roszhkh and Rospil.
Alexey Navalny, oppositionist
“For me personally, the moment of the power of the Internet happened when I was doing the ROSPIL project. When I started collecting money via the Internet. Yandex Wallet - it was an absolute breakthrough that the Internet gave us, people from the Internet control it - an audit, other people from the Internet see that our people are checking it, so you can send money to them. That was very cool. The whole anti-corruption fund and everything we do, it was thanks to what the Internet gave us. ”
Grigory Asmolov, Researcher at King's College London
“It was then that people started talking about the fact that, to some extent, the Russian network society can work more efficiently than the state. After that, questions arose, why do we pay taxes, and why do we actually somehow cooperate with the state if we can solve all problems ourselves. Of course, this was probably a dangerous signal from the point of view of the Russian authorities. ”
At zero, the pro-Kremlin youth movement Nashi specialized in street rallies in support of the authorities. The movement was supervised by Vladislav Surkov, headed by Vasily Yakimenko, the actions were held with varying success. Kristina Potupchik was the press secretary of the movement, it was her who the Presidential Administration instructed to do restoring order in LJ.
Kristina Potupchik, Internet activist
Gradually, an understanding came that grids are needed not only street, but also network, as if online. This work was carried out, then the tops of LiveJournal appeared, the blogger Technomad appeared, who untwisted posts and put them in the top of LiveJournal. We used this manipulation, it was not very expensive, few guessed about it, and then other youth movements also used this mechanism and began to list in the top absolutely every post that Americans piss in your elevators and all that. And gradually this site depreciated. "
Alexey Navalny, oppositionist
“At one point, they simply gave instructions to all their Young Guards to start Live Journals, that is, they also had to be withdrawn to the TOP. That is, they have a network of okhlomons throughout the country and each of these okhlomons was ordered to start LJ and write posts and write comments. That is, everything turned into trash. "
- “Before that, no one in LJ did this, yes, that is, no one used the technology of raising content to the top”?
Kristina Potupchik, Internet activist
“All opposition bloggers came out on their own, Navalny was always in the top, but how to win it ... Well, yes, cheat, nothing of the sort. Everyone brings his information in the ways that are possible. "
Navalny did not need this, because he had such an "explosive" ...
“Of course, if I wrote that the power is bad, then I would know that I would already be in prison.”
In the spring of 2011, a wave of protests swept through the Arab countries, the uprising in Tunisia and Egypt in the press called Facebook and Twitter revolutions. In the same year, a tandem castling took place at a congress of United Russia, which struck many with its cynicism.
Dmitry Medvedev:
“I believe that it would be right for the congress to support the candidacy of the party’s chairman, Vladimir Putin, for the presidency. And finally, the main thing - the choice is always yours. For all the people of Russia. ”
The network has developed the company "United Russia - a party of crooks and thieves." Activists enlisted as observers in the parliamentary elections and witnessed massive fraud. Filming violations immediately posted on the Internet.
- “Look, the ballot boxes have been taken away and they’re doing something with them in the closet.”
“They're doing it right here.”
“Listen, I’ll call the police now.”
“Call.”
- "Calm down."
- “You have an overpack bag under your jacket, in which ballots with ticks for United Russia are enclosed. Yes, I'm nervous, because if they open their jackets you will see everything. ”
“Nikolai Alekseevich, I give you my regards, huge. Please note that the chairman of the commission fills out the ballots. ”
“I don't fill in anything.”
“You just hid it to yourself.”
- "Go, go."
“I witnessed a criminal offense, not just a violation.”
“Go to your place.”
“Please stop. Now the stuffing was carried out on the site. Please stop, these people are throwing in. ”
The day after the election, thousands of indignant Muscovites came to Chistye Prudy. Police officers detained more than 300 people. Then came the ATS-Info project, which helps establish the whereabouts of the detainees.
Daniil Beilinson, co-founder of the ATS-Info project
“We met at night near one of the police stations and decided that it would be useful to make such a page. It’s more difficult for the police to do some kind of atrocities when the society knows where the people are. ”
Rallies demanding fair elections took place all winter and gathered tens of thousands of people, combining civic activists with political activists. Olga Romanova was offered to become a protest accountant, she collected money through Yandex Wallet and kept strict reporting.
Olga Romanova, founder of the movement "Sitting Russia"
Facebook played a key role in the protests, this is such a gathering point, I still have all these groups, Millions of Citizens for Fair Elections, Voter League, and Observers. I’m not moving away from there, I’m watching no one is moving away from there, but such silent groups are tombstones, so they stand in bookmarks and let them stand. The way will be and all the time you think, God, what a naive and unusual way we were. "
On May 6, on the eve of Putin’s inauguration, another mass demonstration ended in a clash with the police. About 400 people were detained. Soon, the show trial began. More than 30 people became defendants in the “Swamp business”, many received real terms. Among them, Alexei Polikhovich, who served three years for grabbing a policeman by the hand. Now works in ATS-Info.
Alexey Polikhovich, editor of the Department of Internal Affairs-Info
“I was called for an interview, then the guys told me, well, we thought it would be fun to take a dude to work, about which we wrote a lot, news” ...
The publication now employs almost 30 people, a separate topic that Polikhovich leads is torture, and lately there have been more and more of them.
“Once I opened the door to this world of torture and now I probably live in it now. There is such a sketch of the heroine of the “Game of Thrones” Melisandra, the red priestess, comes to the party when everyone gives gifts for a pregnant child and look at everyone with very scary eyes. Sometimes I feel like Melisandra who says that winter is close to all of you fucked and to all of you fucked, yes. ”
The reaction to the protests was not long in coming; immediately after the inauguration, the completely controlled parliament began to pass prohibitive laws at such a speed that they called it the "mad printer" on the Internet. The ban also affected Runet, for the first time since Putin’s reign.
Anton Nosik, runet evangelist
“According to the results of the December 2011 elections, a certain kind of Duma was elected. According to the results of the protests that took place in Moscow after these elections, this Duma received roughly the authority of the Chinese Hongweibin (Red Guard). That is, they were allowed to smash. This does not mean that power is behind every bright emission of deputy Zheleznyak or Mizulina. It’s just a horde of pogromists who compete in who will defeat, trample and burn. And the government, as she did in China, allows them to behave this way. ”
Konstantin Malofeev is an Orthodox oligarch, the owner of the channel Tsargrad and a fighter for public morality. According to the convictions of the monarchist.
Konstantin Malofeev, entrepreneur, founder of the Safe Internet League
“We believe that Putin was sent to us by God. Therefore, we must do everything in our power to ensure that President Putin remains in power as long as possible. And if for this you need to change the constitution, then this need has ripened for a long time. "
Malofeev and the “Safe Internet League” created by him became the initiator of the first prohibition law in RuNet. The Filtration Act obliges you to block sites with malicious information, pedophilia, drug propaganda and suicide.
“The first and foremost thing for the league was the preparation of a bill to protect children from negative content. Elena Borisovna Mizulina helped us a lot. She is undoubtedly one of the best lawmakers, five maybe we have people who are able to write the law among our legislators. ”
“Does she understand on the Internet?”
"On the Internet, we understand, so in fact we met."
Elena Mizulina, member of the Federation Council, State Duma deputy
“Prohibition, as the rule of law from which the law is constructed and the word must be very clear, which prohibits something. This is the greatest freedom of man. And they always say to you "here, the deputies only forbid". This is a false, false, completely erroneous idea. This prohibition is precisely where man is free. Because he says "it is impossible, but everything else as you want." And what is the right? Yes, this is the biggest unfreedom. I can tell you that the more rights we have, the less free we are. ”
Runet leaders, including Yandex, LJ and Vkontakte, opposed the law on filtering the Internet, seeing in it a censorship tool. Russian Wikipedia staged a one-day strike. Fears were not in vain.
Artyom Kozlyuk, project manager, Roskomsvoboda
“Actually, the first law on blacklists of sites introduced the first three categories. Every half year, year, a new law is adopted that expands the category of prohibited information, currently there are more than ten of them. And more than ten departments that have the right to make decisions. ”
Konstantin Malofeev, entrepreneur, founder of the Safe Internet League
“Well, the law has been adopted, it has been 8 years since it has been in force. And please, the Internet has become much cleaner. Now certainly there is no such threat to morality. And the “Safe Internet League” was created only to fight immorality. ”
The West included Malofeev in the sanctions lists for financing separatists in eastern Ukraine. Another fighter for morality on the net, deputy Andrei Lugovoi, also has problems with international justice. He is wanted by Interpol on charges of the murder of Alexander Litvinenko (a former FSB officer who died in London in 2006 as a result of poisoning). The so-called Lugovoi law, adopted in 2013, allows Roskomnadzor to block sites with malicious information immediately and without a court order.
Andrey Lugovoi, State Duma deputy
“They should not encourage the spread of base human feelings on the Internet, like this, openly. And base feelings and everything related to some crimes. And with calls for anything, starting from drug addiction and ending with some kind of political stories. ”
According to Lugovoi’s law, Navalny’s blog on LiveJournal was blocked, as well as opposition sites grani.ru and Kasparov.ru. Since then, the State Duma has adopted more than 20 laws restricting the Internet. Last year, Deputy Lugovoi co-authored the scandalous sovereign Internet law, along with Senators Lyudmila Bokova and Andrei Klises. Many perceived the law as a tool to disconnect RuNet from the global network.
Andrey Klishas, member of the Federation Council of the Russian Federation
“This is so pointless and absurd, well, as if from the point of view of our approaches, that it’s not even right to honestly come up with this option, right? Well, in principle, you can also in your apartment, take a shut, turn off the water, gas, light and try to live in this apartment, technically you have such an opportunity. ”
We have lived all these decades and no one thought if the problem was that the root DNS servers are located in the United States of America and the whole world has not thought about it.
DNS root servers - servers that provide DNS root zone operation on the Internet. Regulated on the basis of an agreement with ICAAN Corporation, headquartered in Los Angeles.
“I will tell you, despite the fact that the United Nations includes more than 100 states, there are not so many sovereign states in the world.For us, this is primarily for me and my committee, this is a question primarily related to the protection of the sovereignty of the country. ”
Konstantin Malofeev, entrepreneur, founder of the Safe Internet League
“We are not isolationists, we are isolationists. Because they wanted them from America to command the whole world in isolation. ”
They don’t command anything much, they only register the root ones ...
“About this is the command. This is how it happens, no country that claims to be sovereign, that claims to educate the next generation in its values, will never agree to the Americans dictating whose root service it is, as you correctly say it. But this is just a technique, and most importantly through Facebook and Google, which are giant corporations that are much larger than the GDP of many countries, artificially inflated by the Federal Reserve, no one will let them dictate to us how to raise their children. Therefore, of course, a sovereign runet is good, it should be created, I believe that Facebook and Google should definitely be disabled. ”
But you interpret the law a little differently. Putin said that it would be a kind of preventive measure, in case the Americans want to ...
"And I tell you right away about what we will come to."
Malofeev created under the “League of Safe Internet” cyber teams of volunteers to identify malicious content. Now cyber-forces are led by activists from Tver. They conduct cybersecurity courses for young people. Threatening links are sent to the closed VKontakte group, which is monitored by representatives of Roskomnadzor.
Grigory Pashchenko, head of the CyberDruzhina movement
"We are patriots, we are for patriotism, we love our country."
- “What do you mean by this concept in the context of your activity”?
“In the context, this is the education of our true values. We were forced on these same-sex marriages, same-sex love. We are breaking the institution of the family. We stop on the contrary. ”
Sergey Bolshakov, coordinator of the CyberDruzhina movement
“Well, these are all famous Blue whales. It was Navalny who was the very same who collects people through social networks. Then there was an appeal to us, the boy is sitting at home, doesn’t go out, he says, I’ll make a million on the Internet, etc., I can’t throw garbage out of the house, I just can go for a walk with my friends, there was a meeting in Tver Navalny, he immediately went out him. These were the cases. ”
- "And what does it mean"?
"Well, this means that the target audience, just on which Navalny had an influence, for their political or other purposes."
“Could you lift the boy off the couch and bring him outside?”
Kremlebotami, cyber armed forces and prohibitive laws, attacks on the RuNet was not limited. In 2013, Novaya Gazeta journalists discovered in St. Petersburg a company whose employees are creating pro-Kremlin content for money. Officially, the company was called the “Internet Research Agency”, and its other name is known in the world as “Troll Factory”.
- “And also in these parties, when everyone was tipsy, we have cartoons:
- Hello.
- Hello.
- You are good.
- And I have a girlfriend.
“She's smarter, but worse.”
And here’s Lyoshka, with her green eye stained. ”
“Lesha here is a bit like Yeltsin.”
- "Lyosha, in principle, looks like young to Yeltsin."
Vitaly Bespalov is a journalist from Tyumen who arrived 5 years ago to conquer the northern capital. In search of earnings, Vitaly came across an ad where 2 times more money was offered for the work of the editor than the market average. So he ended up inside the "Troll Factory", which was then located on Savushkina Street.
Vitaly Bespalov, journalist, former employee of the Internet research agency
“The first floor here is the sites, the second floor is the SMM and pictures, there were actually blogs and comments, where in fact the trolls who glorified this building.”
Bespalov was sent to the Ukraine department, where he worked on several fake sites posing as Ukrainian. The most famous of them is nahnews, the Kharkov news agency. After the exposure no longer hides its origin.
“On the day you need to find 20 any news about Ukraine, rewrite, publish. You can’t news where Russia is mentioned in the context of the conflict, you can’t write a terrorist, a separatist, nothing, just militias. Nothing bad, funny about Putin is possible at all. Just as a deceased, either good or nothing. That is, it was always clearly pronounced. "
Another whistleblower of the Troll Factory, Svetlana Savchuk, had a more creative name. She, along with other staff members, posted a fortune-teller blog on behalf of Contador.
Svetlana Savchuk, civil activist, former employee of the Internet research agency
“The image was created of such a character, beloved by Russians, it’s a fortuneteller, psychic, a woman there who sees prophetic dreams, guesses, heals and so on and so forth. Everything as we love. There were very few political posts there. It saved me that my main content of the work was to write all kinds of rubbish about the magical properties of stones and plants. The more expensive the troll account, the more difficult it is to see propaganda there. ”
Vitaly Bespalov, journalist, former employee of the Internet research agency
“The bulk are very young people, 21-22, 30 there was a ceiling. Very many with journalistic education, almost all of them are newcomers, that is, such typical representatives who simply could not find work in their specialty. Basically, these people came, 8.5 hours there they did everything, left - everything, somehow they didn’t care anymore, they didn’t concern, they seemed to have no reflection on this subject. ”
Svetlana Savchuk, civil activist, former employee of the Internet research agency
“Unfortunately, these are the most ordinary guys we meet every day on the street. Not at all ... One girl showed me her puppy, talked about dad and such a cute girl. And what comes out of their hands is a horror of course. Why are they doing this? They do not understand anything. They don’t understand anything ... When they killed Nemtsov, no one at the factory knew practically who Nemtsov was, only one woman from my department, she was older and she was upset, almost to tears. I saw it. And having come to her senses after this news, she sat down to write that the dog has dog death and so on and so forth. ”
Yevgeny Zubarev heads the so-called “media factory”, an unnamed holding of pro-Kremlin publications, the most famous of which is the “Federal News Agency”, RIA “FAN”, which does not hide its propaganda orientation.
Evgeny Zubarev, General Director of RIA FAN
“In February I came to the Crimea, as a reporter, to shoot what was happening there, because it was interesting. And the first thing I came across was the people who told me about the “Korsunsky” pogrom. More than a thousand people, Crimeans, went to Kiev to rally for Yanukovych and they told me in detail very much what the respectable, democratically inclined Ukrainians did to them on the way back. "How did they get out of the woods, where did they escape, when did these buses stop, how did they rape, beat, and kill people."
Note editorial staff. Not a single documented case of murder or rape during the so-called "Korsun pogrom" is not fixed.
“The story of the fan’s creation is such that it took the media to work within the framework of a certain information defense.”
RIA FAN was previously located in the same building as the “Troll Factory” on Savushkina Street, but after exposure, trolls and media projects left for different business centers. Any connection with the “Troll Factory” Zubarev denies.
“Look, we were sitting there on the first floor, everything is divided there. We’re separate there ... That is, you know how now in this business center I have no idea what is here, but to show me that karting is here and God forbid, someone will be killed. And you write tomorrow, “But Zubarev, a go-kart-furrer and people are beating there, constantly dying there”, well, there has to be some kind of logic? ”
Vitaly Bespalov, journalist, former employee of the Internet research agency
"Zubarev went so proud, all the time very important such."
“And he said that he didn’t know at all that some trolls were sitting there.”
“Well, how can I say that without mats? He's lying. Well, how did he not know? Well, he is in the same building, that is, he was occupying, in my opinion, sitting on the second floor, if I am not mistaken, whether it was the 3rd or 4th floor, but in my opinion there was an office on the second floor. I was there once, when I quit, I went to see him. ”
All publications of Zubarevsky Media Holding are deeply unprofitable. The investor of both the Media Factory and the Troll Factory is considered to be businessman Evgeny Prigozhin, known in the press as Putin's chef.
Evgeny Zubarev, General Director of RIA FAN
“As for the investor, yes, for investors, I will not comment. I said, we are in a situation of a real information war. For example, the Federal News Agency has recently been included in the sanctions list by the Justice Ministry. ”
“For communication with Prigozhin?” With Concord?
“No, for interfering in the election.”
In 2018, RIA FAN, Yevgeny Prigozhin and 12 employees of the Internet Research Agency were included in the sanctions list by the US Department of Justice.
“The expectation of some kind of softening there, some other twists there, no, I’ll just explain it again. We are at the forefront of this information war. And we don’t have friends, sorry. ”
“Mr. Prigozhin does not deal only with restaurants, he has many farms that have concluded agreements with the Ministry of Defense and receive many government orders and spend millions of dollars on this“ Troll Factory ”to produce these posts. Why does a restaurateur need this? ”
“Ask him, the Russian state has nothing to do with this.”
“You yourself know him.”
“Well, what? I know a lot of people, both in St. Petersburg and in Moscow. You ask".
“Is this the same building?” Troll Factory "?
- "Yes of course".
After his dismissal, Bespalov spoke about the work on the “Troll Factory” to the American channel NBC. On the Russian channel, they laughed at his tattoos without refuting a single fact.
“It’s important to understand that Ksenia Sobchak’s big fan, T-shirts also have a tattoo on his arm.”
"Helsinki".
Now Bespalov makes one of the most visited LGBT sites “Guys +” on RuNet and maintains his YouTube blog.
Lyudmila Savchuk won a trial with the Internet Research Agency, confirming its existence. He travels around the world with lectures on the “Troll Factory” and is treated for depression.
“I left the“ Troll Factory ”and I met the same theses from the lips of my friends, real people who believed that these were their own thoughts. They said the same thing that was written in the manuals. I thought it could somehow be stopped. "It’s naive, yes, actually it’s possible I’ve broken down as an activist now because I very much believed that something could be done with this."
Ilya Varlamov, blogger
“No matter how miserable it is, mean, disgusting, but they managed at some point to change the picture and ten people who tried to convince you that you were shit, ran to you for any of my“ I am an oppositionist ” not an oppositionist, a traitor, a column of 5, and in general you went there in the ass, huh? ”
“So they managed to create a sense of numerical superiority?”
“This is not a sensation, it affects people, it’s not just like that, it would be rather frivolous and not far-sighted to assume that everyone understands where the troll is, where not the troll. Well this is how to assume that well, who is watching TV, everyone understands that it lies. And for a moment, the TV was able to convince people to go to war with the fraternal people and kill their relatives there. I also worked on the Internet, and was reaping the benefits, and at some point the Internet became just so stuffy. ”
Alexey Navalny, opposition
“At some point they made such a bot machine and I hung up a post and in the first 3 seconds I have 1000 comments, well, with some kind of pornography, there is a naked woman or just meaningless text, I attracted a programmer who wrote a robot and who began to ban these comments. Then they began to hang a picture, and by the number of pixels the robot measured that it was a picture and banned those who hang this picture. They changed the pictures and the number of pixels in the pictures. People stopped writing to me, because what's the point of writing if your comment is there on page 29. “I included in my friends everyone who wrote me some comments over the past few years and closed the comments from everyone else, that is, I lost.”
“What was the strategy?”
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At Christina Potupchik things are still going uphill. The girl opened her own Internet marketing agency, among whose clients the Presidential Administration, instead of LJ, is now a Telegram. Potupchik has more than 40 channels, many of which are political. Recently, Putin presented her with the Order of Merit for the Fatherland. This spring, the Potupchik book on channel promotion in Telegram was published.
- “Have you had any other successful projects on the network”?
Kristina Potupchik, Internet activist
- “Well, you can’t talk about many, but it’s probably better not to talk about any at all, why, is it all the inner kitchen, yes, why will I expose magic and talk about tricks”?
“Well, yes, I've been working in this field for 12 years.”
“We use the Internet and do not really understand how many tricks you have there.”
“I hope you don't understand.”
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Holivar. History of Runet. Part 2. Counterculture: populi, marijuana and the Kremlin
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Holivar. History of Runet. Part 4. Mail.ru: games, social networks, Durov
Seattle - the birthplace of grunge, Starbucks and LiveJournal - a blog platform that has had a huge impact on Runet. In 1999, a student at Washington University, Brad Fitzpatrick, thought it would be nice to keep a diary on the Internet and created LiveJournal, in the states in the LiveJournal (LJ) mostly teenagers wrote. In Russia, LJ has become the main platform for reflection on the fate of the fatherland.
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Brad Fitzpatrick, founder of LiveJournal
“In the States, posts in LiveJournal resembled the writings of a child, in Russia they posted texts, just like in a newspaper. In the United States, it was as if the child was tapping the keyboard, while you had long, serious texts and a lot of photographs, and in the United States, it was short, with a lot of mistakes, it sucks! But it was fun. We were just playing the fool. "
With the advent of Facebook, the popularity of LiveJournal declined, and continued to grow in Russia. LJ became the platform on which civil society was formed. One of the first to unite motorists struggling with the prevalence of flashing lights on the roads. The community is called "Blue Buckets."
Peter Shkumatov, coordinator of the Blue Bucket Society
“Of course, we were struck by this phenomenon of the LiveJournal. Some of our resonant stories, resonant posts, they were immediately reposted by a huge number of people and as a result we were in the top, even more people were subscribing to us. When you are in a regular forum, you cannot pick up a wave, but with the help of social networks, we began to manage to pick up a wave. Now there are about 600 flashing lights, well, of course it is depressing, but it’s not 20,000 special signals with which we started. ”
Following civic activists in LJ, opposition politicians and anti-corruption investigations by Aleksey Navalny reached out, made his blog the most popular in LJ, and the pro-government media is still called a blogger.
Alexey Navalny, oppositionist
Starting from 2005-2006, when the media were completely cleaned up and a couple of newspapers remained there, the whole political discussion moved to LJ. I, as a politician, as a public figure, as a person who does investigations, I was born in LiveJournal, grew up in LiveJournal, my youth passed in LiveJournal political. If there were no LiveJournal, I would not have been able to engage in any politics at all.
In 2007, LJ was bought by SUP, co-owned by Russian businessman Alexander Mamut, Fitzpatrick arrives in Moscow and discovers that he is the idol of runet, which is literally worn in his hands.
Brad Fitzpatrick, founder of LiveJournal
“The first time I was called to Russia and said - there will be a technical meeting, you will explain how it all works. I flew in and raced ... Parties, parties, parties ... It's time to fly away, I say that we did not discuss anything. And they say, well, you arrive in a couple of months - we will discuss everything. Since then I have been to Russia 11 times. ”
The novel of the founder of LJ with Russia ended in his marriage to a Russian.
The programmer has been working at Google for many years, tired of social networks Fitzpatrick at one time refused the offer of Zuckerberg to work on Facebook and get a small package of shares for this.
“When Facebook went public, I calculated how much I would earn on the shares I refused. It turned out 92 million dollars. So it goes".
In the summer of 2010, fires swept through central Russia, and Moscow was smoked. In a situation where state channels hid the truth, and the Ministry of Emergencies could not cope with the elements, people began to unite to help each other.
Grigory Asmolov, then an employee of the Berkman Center at Harvard, suggested using the Ushahidi platform, created by Kenya volunteers to observe the elections.
Grigory Asmolov, Researcher at King's College London
“I wrote a LiveJournal post about the idea of an aid card on July 31st, 2010. I saw that people react with quite a lot of enthusiasm, and many liked this idea and the main advantage of this platform was that it took us a little more than a day to create it. ”
The art historian Anna Barne suggested in her LJ to collect help for the victims of the fire. A week later, her one-room apartment turned into a warehouse of products and fire-fighting equipment.
Anna Barnet, volunteer
The stream all arrived, arrived. I already stopped closing the door and it was no longer possible to go wash my hair, I just sat there and said that people, here is the money in this envelope, there is pasta here, canned food here, potatoes here. I got fire hoses that I saw for the first time in my life. There are half nuts, I didn’t know what it was then, there was a motor pump with a fence sleeve in the kitchen. We somehow tried to coordinate through this LiveJournal, that is, it really was such a real organization, “Society from Below”.
After the news about the next victims of the fire, Anna published an open letter to Shoigu in her hearts, in which she wrote that she had lost faith in the state, but believed in human kindness. The letter became viral, and Anna's life changed dramatically. During a volunteer firefighting course, she met her future husband, left art history and devoted herself completely to extinguishing forest fires.
“This book is the history of aviation forest protection, I managed to do it when I worked there for 4 years. And if they tell me that there are no real men in Russia, I don’t believe in it at all, because they exist and I personally know at least a couple of hundred. ”
The founders of the “Help Card” project received a Runet Prize in 2010. This was the first successful crowdsourcing project in Russia. The idea of crowdsourcing, the mobilization of Internet users to solve certain problems, was picked up by Navalny with the projects of Rosyama, Roszhkh and Rospil.
Alexey Navalny, oppositionist
“For me personally, the moment of the power of the Internet happened when I was doing the ROSPIL project. When I started collecting money via the Internet. Yandex Wallet - it was an absolute breakthrough that the Internet gave us, people from the Internet control it - an audit, other people from the Internet see that our people are checking it, so you can send money to them. That was very cool. The whole anti-corruption fund and everything we do, it was thanks to what the Internet gave us. ”
Grigory Asmolov, Researcher at King's College London
“It was then that people started talking about the fact that, to some extent, the Russian network society can work more efficiently than the state. After that, questions arose, why do we pay taxes, and why do we actually somehow cooperate with the state if we can solve all problems ourselves. Of course, this was probably a dangerous signal from the point of view of the Russian authorities. ”
At zero, the pro-Kremlin youth movement Nashi specialized in street rallies in support of the authorities. The movement was supervised by Vladislav Surkov, headed by Vasily Yakimenko, the actions were held with varying success. Kristina Potupchik was the press secretary of the movement, it was her who the Presidential Administration instructed to do restoring order in LJ.
Kristina Potupchik, Internet activist
Gradually, an understanding came that grids are needed not only street, but also network, as if online. This work was carried out, then the tops of LiveJournal appeared, the blogger Technomad appeared, who untwisted posts and put them in the top of LiveJournal. We used this manipulation, it was not very expensive, few guessed about it, and then other youth movements also used this mechanism and began to list in the top absolutely every post that Americans piss in your elevators and all that. And gradually this site depreciated. "
Alexey Navalny, oppositionist
“At one point, they simply gave instructions to all their Young Guards to start Live Journals, that is, they also had to be withdrawn to the TOP. That is, they have a network of okhlomons throughout the country and each of these okhlomons was ordered to start LJ and write posts and write comments. That is, everything turned into trash. "
- “Before that, no one in LJ did this, yes, that is, no one used the technology of raising content to the top”?
Kristina Potupchik, Internet activist
“All opposition bloggers came out on their own, Navalny was always in the top, but how to win it ... Well, yes, cheat, nothing of the sort. Everyone brings his information in the ways that are possible. "
Navalny did not need this, because he had such an "explosive" ...
“Of course, if I wrote that the power is bad, then I would know that I would already be in prison.”
In the spring of 2011, a wave of protests swept through the Arab countries, the uprising in Tunisia and Egypt in the press called Facebook and Twitter revolutions. In the same year, a tandem castling took place at a congress of United Russia, which struck many with its cynicism.
Dmitry Medvedev:
“I believe that it would be right for the congress to support the candidacy of the party’s chairman, Vladimir Putin, for the presidency. And finally, the main thing - the choice is always yours. For all the people of Russia. ”
The network has developed the company "United Russia - a party of crooks and thieves." Activists enlisted as observers in the parliamentary elections and witnessed massive fraud. Filming violations immediately posted on the Internet.
- “Look, the ballot boxes have been taken away and they’re doing something with them in the closet.”
“They're doing it right here.”
“Listen, I’ll call the police now.”
“Call.”
- "Calm down."
- “You have an overpack bag under your jacket, in which ballots with ticks for United Russia are enclosed. Yes, I'm nervous, because if they open their jackets you will see everything. ”
“Nikolai Alekseevich, I give you my regards, huge. Please note that the chairman of the commission fills out the ballots. ”
“I don't fill in anything.”
“You just hid it to yourself.”
- "Go, go."
“I witnessed a criminal offense, not just a violation.”
“Go to your place.”
“Please stop. Now the stuffing was carried out on the site. Please stop, these people are throwing in. ”
The day after the election, thousands of indignant Muscovites came to Chistye Prudy. Police officers detained more than 300 people. Then came the ATS-Info project, which helps establish the whereabouts of the detainees.
Daniil Beilinson, co-founder of the ATS-Info project
“We met at night near one of the police stations and decided that it would be useful to make such a page. It’s more difficult for the police to do some kind of atrocities when the society knows where the people are. ”
Rallies demanding fair elections took place all winter and gathered tens of thousands of people, combining civic activists with political activists. Olga Romanova was offered to become a protest accountant, she collected money through Yandex Wallet and kept strict reporting.
Olga Romanova, founder of the movement "Sitting Russia"
Facebook played a key role in the protests, this is such a gathering point, I still have all these groups, Millions of Citizens for Fair Elections, Voter League, and Observers. I’m not moving away from there, I’m watching no one is moving away from there, but such silent groups are tombstones, so they stand in bookmarks and let them stand. The way will be and all the time you think, God, what a naive and unusual way we were. "
On May 6, on the eve of Putin’s inauguration, another mass demonstration ended in a clash with the police. About 400 people were detained. Soon, the show trial began. More than 30 people became defendants in the “Swamp business”, many received real terms. Among them, Alexei Polikhovich, who served three years for grabbing a policeman by the hand. Now works in ATS-Info.
Alexey Polikhovich, editor of the Department of Internal Affairs-Info
“I was called for an interview, then the guys told me, well, we thought it would be fun to take a dude to work, about which we wrote a lot, news” ...
The publication now employs almost 30 people, a separate topic that Polikhovich leads is torture, and lately there have been more and more of them.
“Once I opened the door to this world of torture and now I probably live in it now. There is such a sketch of the heroine of the “Game of Thrones” Melisandra, the red priestess, comes to the party when everyone gives gifts for a pregnant child and look at everyone with very scary eyes. Sometimes I feel like Melisandra who says that winter is close to all of you fucked and to all of you fucked, yes. ”
The reaction to the protests was not long in coming; immediately after the inauguration, the completely controlled parliament began to pass prohibitive laws at such a speed that they called it the "mad printer" on the Internet. The ban also affected Runet, for the first time since Putin’s reign.
Anton Nosik, runet evangelist
“According to the results of the December 2011 elections, a certain kind of Duma was elected. According to the results of the protests that took place in Moscow after these elections, this Duma received roughly the authority of the Chinese Hongweibin (Red Guard). That is, they were allowed to smash. This does not mean that power is behind every bright emission of deputy Zheleznyak or Mizulina. It’s just a horde of pogromists who compete in who will defeat, trample and burn. And the government, as she did in China, allows them to behave this way. ”
Konstantin Malofeev is an Orthodox oligarch, the owner of the channel Tsargrad and a fighter for public morality. According to the convictions of the monarchist.
Konstantin Malofeev, entrepreneur, founder of the Safe Internet League
“We believe that Putin was sent to us by God. Therefore, we must do everything in our power to ensure that President Putin remains in power as long as possible. And if for this you need to change the constitution, then this need has ripened for a long time. "
Malofeev and the “Safe Internet League” created by him became the initiator of the first prohibition law in RuNet. The Filtration Act obliges you to block sites with malicious information, pedophilia, drug propaganda and suicide.
“The first and foremost thing for the league was the preparation of a bill to protect children from negative content. Elena Borisovna Mizulina helped us a lot. She is undoubtedly one of the best lawmakers, five maybe we have people who are able to write the law among our legislators. ”
“Does she understand on the Internet?”
"On the Internet, we understand, so in fact we met."
Elena Mizulina, member of the Federation Council, State Duma deputy
“Prohibition, as the rule of law from which the law is constructed and the word must be very clear, which prohibits something. This is the greatest freedom of man. And they always say to you "here, the deputies only forbid". This is a false, false, completely erroneous idea. This prohibition is precisely where man is free. Because he says "it is impossible, but everything else as you want." And what is the right? Yes, this is the biggest unfreedom. I can tell you that the more rights we have, the less free we are. ”
Runet leaders, including Yandex, LJ and Vkontakte, opposed the law on filtering the Internet, seeing in it a censorship tool. Russian Wikipedia staged a one-day strike. Fears were not in vain.
Artyom Kozlyuk, project manager, Roskomsvoboda
“Actually, the first law on blacklists of sites introduced the first three categories. Every half year, year, a new law is adopted that expands the category of prohibited information, currently there are more than ten of them. And more than ten departments that have the right to make decisions. ”
Konstantin Malofeev, entrepreneur, founder of the Safe Internet League
“Well, the law has been adopted, it has been 8 years since it has been in force. And please, the Internet has become much cleaner. Now certainly there is no such threat to morality. And the “Safe Internet League” was created only to fight immorality. ”
The West included Malofeev in the sanctions lists for financing separatists in eastern Ukraine. Another fighter for morality on the net, deputy Andrei Lugovoi, also has problems with international justice. He is wanted by Interpol on charges of the murder of Alexander Litvinenko (a former FSB officer who died in London in 2006 as a result of poisoning). The so-called Lugovoi law, adopted in 2013, allows Roskomnadzor to block sites with malicious information immediately and without a court order.
Andrey Lugovoi, State Duma deputy
“They should not encourage the spread of base human feelings on the Internet, like this, openly. And base feelings and everything related to some crimes. And with calls for anything, starting from drug addiction and ending with some kind of political stories. ”
According to Lugovoi’s law, Navalny’s blog on LiveJournal was blocked, as well as opposition sites grani.ru and Kasparov.ru. Since then, the State Duma has adopted more than 20 laws restricting the Internet. Last year, Deputy Lugovoi co-authored the scandalous sovereign Internet law, along with Senators Lyudmila Bokova and Andrei Klises. Many perceived the law as a tool to disconnect RuNet from the global network.
Andrey Klishas, member of the Federation Council of the Russian Federation
“This is so pointless and absurd, well, as if from the point of view of our approaches, that it’s not even right to honestly come up with this option, right? Well, in principle, you can also in your apartment, take a shut, turn off the water, gas, light and try to live in this apartment, technically you have such an opportunity. ”
We have lived all these decades and no one thought if the problem was that the root DNS servers are located in the United States of America and the whole world has not thought about it.
DNS root servers - servers that provide DNS root zone operation on the Internet. Regulated on the basis of an agreement with ICAAN Corporation, headquartered in Los Angeles.
“I will tell you, despite the fact that the United Nations includes more than 100 states, there are not so many sovereign states in the world.For us, this is primarily for me and my committee, this is a question primarily related to the protection of the sovereignty of the country. ”
Konstantin Malofeev, entrepreneur, founder of the Safe Internet League
“We are not isolationists, we are isolationists. Because they wanted them from America to command the whole world in isolation. ”
They don’t command anything much, they only register the root ones ...
“About this is the command. This is how it happens, no country that claims to be sovereign, that claims to educate the next generation in its values, will never agree to the Americans dictating whose root service it is, as you correctly say it. But this is just a technique, and most importantly through Facebook and Google, which are giant corporations that are much larger than the GDP of many countries, artificially inflated by the Federal Reserve, no one will let them dictate to us how to raise their children. Therefore, of course, a sovereign runet is good, it should be created, I believe that Facebook and Google should definitely be disabled. ”
But you interpret the law a little differently. Putin said that it would be a kind of preventive measure, in case the Americans want to ...
"And I tell you right away about what we will come to."
Malofeev created under the “League of Safe Internet” cyber teams of volunteers to identify malicious content. Now cyber-forces are led by activists from Tver. They conduct cybersecurity courses for young people. Threatening links are sent to the closed VKontakte group, which is monitored by representatives of Roskomnadzor.
Grigory Pashchenko, head of the CyberDruzhina movement
"We are patriots, we are for patriotism, we love our country."
- “What do you mean by this concept in the context of your activity”?
“In the context, this is the education of our true values. We were forced on these same-sex marriages, same-sex love. We are breaking the institution of the family. We stop on the contrary. ”
Sergey Bolshakov, coordinator of the CyberDruzhina movement
“Well, these are all famous Blue whales. It was Navalny who was the very same who collects people through social networks. Then there was an appeal to us, the boy is sitting at home, doesn’t go out, he says, I’ll make a million on the Internet, etc., I can’t throw garbage out of the house, I just can go for a walk with my friends, there was a meeting in Tver Navalny, he immediately went out him. These were the cases. ”
- "And what does it mean"?
"Well, this means that the target audience, just on which Navalny had an influence, for their political or other purposes."
“Could you lift the boy off the couch and bring him outside?”
Kremlebotami, cyber armed forces and prohibitive laws, attacks on the RuNet was not limited. In 2013, Novaya Gazeta journalists discovered in St. Petersburg a company whose employees are creating pro-Kremlin content for money. Officially, the company was called the “Internet Research Agency”, and its other name is known in the world as “Troll Factory”.
- “And also in these parties, when everyone was tipsy, we have cartoons:
- Hello.
- Hello.
- You are good.
- And I have a girlfriend.
“She's smarter, but worse.”
And here’s Lyoshka, with her green eye stained. ”
“Lesha here is a bit like Yeltsin.”
- "Lyosha, in principle, looks like young to Yeltsin."
Vitaly Bespalov is a journalist from Tyumen who arrived 5 years ago to conquer the northern capital. In search of earnings, Vitaly came across an ad where 2 times more money was offered for the work of the editor than the market average. So he ended up inside the "Troll Factory", which was then located on Savushkina Street.
Vitaly Bespalov, journalist, former employee of the Internet research agency
“The first floor here is the sites, the second floor is the SMM and pictures, there were actually blogs and comments, where in fact the trolls who glorified this building.”
Bespalov was sent to the Ukraine department, where he worked on several fake sites posing as Ukrainian. The most famous of them is nahnews, the Kharkov news agency. After the exposure no longer hides its origin.
“On the day you need to find 20 any news about Ukraine, rewrite, publish. You can’t news where Russia is mentioned in the context of the conflict, you can’t write a terrorist, a separatist, nothing, just militias. Nothing bad, funny about Putin is possible at all. Just as a deceased, either good or nothing. That is, it was always clearly pronounced. "
Another whistleblower of the Troll Factory, Svetlana Savchuk, had a more creative name. She, along with other staff members, posted a fortune-teller blog on behalf of Contador.
Svetlana Savchuk, civil activist, former employee of the Internet research agency
“The image was created of such a character, beloved by Russians, it’s a fortuneteller, psychic, a woman there who sees prophetic dreams, guesses, heals and so on and so forth. Everything as we love. There were very few political posts there. It saved me that my main content of the work was to write all kinds of rubbish about the magical properties of stones and plants. The more expensive the troll account, the more difficult it is to see propaganda there. ”
Vitaly Bespalov, journalist, former employee of the Internet research agency
“The bulk are very young people, 21-22, 30 there was a ceiling. Very many with journalistic education, almost all of them are newcomers, that is, such typical representatives who simply could not find work in their specialty. Basically, these people came, 8.5 hours there they did everything, left - everything, somehow they didn’t care anymore, they didn’t concern, they seemed to have no reflection on this subject. ”
Svetlana Savchuk, civil activist, former employee of the Internet research agency
“Unfortunately, these are the most ordinary guys we meet every day on the street. Not at all ... One girl showed me her puppy, talked about dad and such a cute girl. And what comes out of their hands is a horror of course. Why are they doing this? They do not understand anything. They don’t understand anything ... When they killed Nemtsov, no one at the factory knew practically who Nemtsov was, only one woman from my department, she was older and she was upset, almost to tears. I saw it. And having come to her senses after this news, she sat down to write that the dog has dog death and so on and so forth. ”
Yevgeny Zubarev heads the so-called “media factory”, an unnamed holding of pro-Kremlin publications, the most famous of which is the “Federal News Agency”, RIA “FAN”, which does not hide its propaganda orientation.
Evgeny Zubarev, General Director of RIA FAN
“In February I came to the Crimea, as a reporter, to shoot what was happening there, because it was interesting. And the first thing I came across was the people who told me about the “Korsunsky” pogrom. More than a thousand people, Crimeans, went to Kiev to rally for Yanukovych and they told me in detail very much what the respectable, democratically inclined Ukrainians did to them on the way back. "How did they get out of the woods, where did they escape, when did these buses stop, how did they rape, beat, and kill people."
Note editorial staff. Not a single documented case of murder or rape during the so-called "Korsun pogrom" is not fixed.
“The story of the fan’s creation is such that it took the media to work within the framework of a certain information defense.”
RIA FAN was previously located in the same building as the “Troll Factory” on Savushkina Street, but after exposure, trolls and media projects left for different business centers. Any connection with the “Troll Factory” Zubarev denies.
“Look, we were sitting there on the first floor, everything is divided there. We’re separate there ... That is, you know how now in this business center I have no idea what is here, but to show me that karting is here and God forbid, someone will be killed. And you write tomorrow, “But Zubarev, a go-kart-furrer and people are beating there, constantly dying there”, well, there has to be some kind of logic? ”
Vitaly Bespalov, journalist, former employee of the Internet research agency
"Zubarev went so proud, all the time very important such."
“And he said that he didn’t know at all that some trolls were sitting there.”
“Well, how can I say that without mats? He's lying. Well, how did he not know? Well, he is in the same building, that is, he was occupying, in my opinion, sitting on the second floor, if I am not mistaken, whether it was the 3rd or 4th floor, but in my opinion there was an office on the second floor. I was there once, when I quit, I went to see him. ”
All publications of Zubarevsky Media Holding are deeply unprofitable. The investor of both the Media Factory and the Troll Factory is considered to be businessman Evgeny Prigozhin, known in the press as Putin's chef.
Evgeny Zubarev, General Director of RIA FAN
“As for the investor, yes, for investors, I will not comment. I said, we are in a situation of a real information war. For example, the Federal News Agency has recently been included in the sanctions list by the Justice Ministry. ”
“For communication with Prigozhin?” With Concord?
“No, for interfering in the election.”
In 2018, RIA FAN, Yevgeny Prigozhin and 12 employees of the Internet Research Agency were included in the sanctions list by the US Department of Justice.
“The expectation of some kind of softening there, some other twists there, no, I’ll just explain it again. We are at the forefront of this information war. And we don’t have friends, sorry. ”
“Mr. Prigozhin does not deal only with restaurants, he has many farms that have concluded agreements with the Ministry of Defense and receive many government orders and spend millions of dollars on this“ Troll Factory ”to produce these posts. Why does a restaurateur need this? ”
“Ask him, the Russian state has nothing to do with this.”
“You yourself know him.”
“Well, what? I know a lot of people, both in St. Petersburg and in Moscow. You ask".
“Is this the same building?” Troll Factory "?
- "Yes of course".
After his dismissal, Bespalov spoke about the work on the “Troll Factory” to the American channel NBC. On the Russian channel, they laughed at his tattoos without refuting a single fact.
“It’s important to understand that Ksenia Sobchak’s big fan, T-shirts also have a tattoo on his arm.”
"Helsinki".
Now Bespalov makes one of the most visited LGBT sites “Guys +” on RuNet and maintains his YouTube blog.
Lyudmila Savchuk won a trial with the Internet Research Agency, confirming its existence. He travels around the world with lectures on the “Troll Factory” and is treated for depression.
“I left the“ Troll Factory ”and I met the same theses from the lips of my friends, real people who believed that these were their own thoughts. They said the same thing that was written in the manuals. I thought it could somehow be stopped. "It’s naive, yes, actually it’s possible I’ve broken down as an activist now because I very much believed that something could be done with this."
Ilya Varlamov, blogger
“No matter how miserable it is, mean, disgusting, but they managed at some point to change the picture and ten people who tried to convince you that you were shit, ran to you for any of my“ I am an oppositionist ” not an oppositionist, a traitor, a column of 5, and in general you went there in the ass, huh? ”
“So they managed to create a sense of numerical superiority?”
“This is not a sensation, it affects people, it’s not just like that, it would be rather frivolous and not far-sighted to assume that everyone understands where the troll is, where not the troll. Well this is how to assume that well, who is watching TV, everyone understands that it lies. And for a moment, the TV was able to convince people to go to war with the fraternal people and kill their relatives there. I also worked on the Internet, and was reaping the benefits, and at some point the Internet became just so stuffy. ”
Alexey Navalny, opposition
“At some point they made such a bot machine and I hung up a post and in the first 3 seconds I have 1000 comments, well, with some kind of pornography, there is a naked woman or just meaningless text, I attracted a programmer who wrote a robot and who began to ban these comments. Then they began to hang a picture, and by the number of pixels the robot measured that it was a picture and banned those who hang this picture. They changed the pictures and the number of pixels in the pictures. People stopped writing to me, because what's the point of writing if your comment is there on page 29. “I included in my friends everyone who wrote me some comments over the past few years and closed the comments from everyone else, that is, I lost.”
“What was the strategy?”
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At Christina Potupchik things are still going uphill. The girl opened her own Internet marketing agency, among whose clients the Presidential Administration, instead of LJ, is now a Telegram. Potupchik has more than 40 channels, many of which are political. Recently, Putin presented her with the Order of Merit for the Fatherland. This spring, the Potupchik book on channel promotion in Telegram was published.
- “Have you had any other successful projects on the network”?
Kristina Potupchik, Internet activist
- “Well, you can’t talk about many, but it’s probably better not to talk about any at all, why, is it all the inner kitchen, yes, why will I expose magic and talk about tricks”?
“Well, yes, I've been working in this field for 12 years.”
“We use the Internet and do not really understand how many tricks you have there.”
“I hope you don't understand.”
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