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heh heh you a sassy girl.

artappraiser — Tue, 31 Jul 2018 01:25:20 +0000

In reply to Well, in fairness, Dick

heh heh you a sassy girl.

Well, in fairness, Dick

CVille Dem — Mon, 30 Jul 2018 23:30:38 +0000

In reply to My short life as (the face of) a Russian disinformation troll

Well, in fairness, Dick Cheney IS a terrorist.

Another UK House of Commons

artappraiser — Mon, 30 Jul 2018 18:34:40 +0000

In reply to My short life as (the face of) a Russian disinformation troll

Another UK House of Commons Select Committee Report on disinformation and fake news:

A report from @DCMS select committee into @facebook’s recent conduct highlights spread of #fakenews, rise of dark ads and more
Recommendations include full auditing & scrutiny of tech companies & code of ethics that all tech companies will agree to uphold. https://t.co/zlwHeycUyi pic.twitter.com/06PNRqffZN
— Maria Axente (@maria_axente) July 30, 2018

This is how sophisticated

artappraiser — Mon, 30 Jul 2018 11:26:31 +0000

In reply to My short life as (the face of) a Russian disinformation troll

This is how sophisticated they are about our online culture---the troll said he wanted to use the ID of of a protected class (Hispanic) so I wouldn’t get censored; from the article:

Within minutes, he replied. “Hey Tim, sorry about the picture. Never occured [sic] to me that someone would piece it together. I wanted a Latino looking profile, because I wanted to be a representative of a protected class (Hispanic) so I wouldn’t get censored. I googled ‘South American Professor’ to hopefully get a nice repurposed stock photo of a respectable looking Hispanic man. You seemed perfect for the Hector avitar [sic].”

I couldn’t believe he answered. I was communicating directly with my identity thief. And he was civil, polite even. Later, I tested Morenco’s explanation with a number of Google searches, including the exact terms he’d given me and several variations. I tried Yahoo, too. None of the searches yielded my picture anywhere near the top of the results. (I didn’t try a search in Russian or on non-English search engines.)