PRI and Twitter Trolls
2018-02-06 01:03:41.459736+01 by Dan Lyke 0 comments
Gimlet: Episode #112 The Prophet. There's a transcript for the podcast averse.
Andrea Noel is an American reporter in Mexico. Random guy assaults her, she finds surveillance video, posts it on the internet, huge outpouring of sympathy, but then the trolls find her. This goes back and forth, and then...
Then she discovers that the troll army is something that the PRI (Mexico's Institutional Revolutionary Party) has been funding to create diversions and propaganda...