{"id":6757,"date":"2015-03-27T10:49:15","date_gmt":"2015-03-27T14:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=6757"},"modified":"2015-03-27T10:49:15","modified_gmt":"2015-03-27T14:49:15","slug":"putins-ministry-of-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=6757","title":{"rendered":"Putin&#8217;s Ministry of Truth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rferl.mobi\/a\/how-to-guide-russian-trolling-trolls\/26919999.html\">an interview<\/a> with Radio Free Europe, a former employee reveals what is a de facto Orwellian Ministry of Truth operated by Putin&#8217;s regime in Russia.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rferl.mobi\/a\/how-to-guide-russian-trolling-trolls\/26919999.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6758\" src=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/ministry.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"630\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/ministry.jpg 630w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/ministry-300x162.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In St. Petersburg&#8217;s Internet Research center, professional Internet trolls are employed who post comments on various social media sites. The operation is sophisticated: employees play different roles, creating an impression of genuine debate in which, of course, the government line always prevails. Their activities sometimes become surreal, described as a parody of Orwell&#8217;s novel. But wait a cotton-picking minute&#8230; wasn&#8217;t it Orwell&#8217;s novel that was supposed to be the parody? What a strange world we live in.<\/p>\n<fb:like href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=6757' send='true' layout='standard' show_faces='true' width='450' height='65' action='like' colorscheme='light' font='lucida grande'><\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an interview with Radio Free Europe, a former employee reveals what is a de facto Orwellian Ministry of Truth operated by Putin&#8217;s regime in Russia. In St. Petersburg&#8217;s Internet Research center, professional Internet trolls are employed who post comments on various social media sites. The operation is sophisticated: employees play different roles, creating an <a href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=6757' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","category-internet","category-politics","category-23-id","category-6-id","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6757"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6760,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6757\/revisions\/6760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}