“The point is to spoil [the internet], to create the atmosphere of hate, to make it so stinky that normal people won’t want to touch it.”
–Adrian Chen, in The New York Times Magazine, on Russia’s massive troll army—and their plot against him.
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“The point is to spoil [the internet], to create the atmosphere of hate, to make it so stinky that normal people won’t want to touch it.”
–Adrian Chen, in The New York Times Magazine, on Russia’s massive troll army—and their plot against him.
