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| Really? A sex tape? |
A Russian-government-backed “troll factory” hired a black man and a Hillary Clinton look-alike to make a sex tape, according to the first former employee of the factory’s American division to go on the record.
Alan Baskaev worked for the troll factory, also known as the Internet Research Agency, for about six months, he told the independent Russian television channel TV Rain. And his account of the night shift at the troll factory’s American division sheds even more light on the inner workings of the Russian-sponsored effort to influence U.S. elections.
The trolls ran websites that published pro-Trump stories and attempted to sow racial discord. They were also behind hugely popular Twitter accounts, some of which were retweeted by Trump campaign officials and even Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey. And the troll factory had ordinary Americans organize rallies at its behest.“
You know, there’s this meme about the troll factory, people sitting in black caps, masks, behind them there’s a photo of Putin and a Russian flag. They’re so intense,” he said, shaking his head. “I don’t know what happened on the day shift, but the night shift was a bacchanal. We did the most ridiculous things we could think of.”
Baskaev worked at the factory from November 2014 to April 2015, mostly writing posts on political forums online.
Once, Baskaev recalled, Russian propaganda-makers thought they hit the “sensation” jackpot with a fake video of a black man and a woman who looked like Hillary Clinton having sex.
Well that's....bizarre.
First off I have never seen Hillary as a particularly sexual person, and at her age the idea of having an affair just does not seem even remotely feasible.
But beyond that Hillary is a very, very careful person, who the idea that she would have allowed herself to be filmed having a sexual encounter is ridiculous on its face.
However it really does show just how far these Russian trolls would go to discredit her and help Trump win that election.
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