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The biggest disinformation influencers who parrot the governments like stenographers are showered with millions as news anchors, talking heads and get juicy book deals. These amateur troll farms are a joke in comparison. They have not lied countries into wars unlike the other more insidious kinds.

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Not all trolls farms are amateur. The article says exactly otherwise.

> Since 2009, more than $60 million has been collected by firms that promote messages using bots and other amplification strategies, according to research from the Oxford Internet Institute.

The man that owns Wagner owns one of the most prominent ones.

Who needs to pay someone $15/hr when you’ve got the MSNBC producer on speed dial?

News anchor only has so much reach. Why stop there when you could get more for cheap?

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