Ukrainan cybertrolliksi ilmoittautuminen

http://fortruss.blogspot.fi/2015/02/ukraines-ministry-of-truth-is-hiring.html

The Ukrainian Ministry of Truth [officially the Ministry of Information Policy] debuted a new resource: http://i-army.org/. There you can join the team of bots who will then proceed to troll the internet with their “objective” and “free” opinions.



What exactly is this resource? Most importantly, who established it?



After examining the html code, it becomes clear that the whole point of the site is to create a database of email addresses in order to distribute messages using the getresponse.com service. We can even see how many people have signed up. [A little over 13 thousand as of Monday evening].



The project is hosted on the US CloudFlare hosting service. It seems that all the functions of the resource are using that hosting service. The site uses Yandex Metrika statistics as well as Google Analytics. And here we catch our hero:



The counter number UA-3789523 can be found through search engines and, apart from other sites, also yields a personal web page belonging to Andrey Bogdanovich, a journalist and the deputy chair of the “Democratic Alliance” political party.



He is also the director of several business projects, including the Web101 web studio, whose clients include…the Russian Embassy to Ukraine!



Andrey is also an active member of the administrative commission at the Kiev City Administration and collects funds for the punitive operation on the Donbass.



Here is an interesting detail: Andrey completed a number of courses for “young leaders,” including administered by Ivan Ninenko the Deputy Director of Transparency International—Russia. While international branches of foreign organizations are not the topic of this post, perhaps someone else will take up this line of investigation.



In addition, the UA-37889523 also yields the site skoty.info, on which “peaceful demonstrators” were compiling lists of inconvenient individuals.



This completes the portrait of a “democratic activist” who conceals the fact of his participation in a propaganda project of Ukraine’s Ministry of Truth.