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“General sensation? Disgust"
Business Petersburg talked with former "salary trolls"
In St. Petersburg, internet research LLC, 250 people work, their task is to write the posts and comments of the pro -Kremlin nature around the clock. “Business Petersburg” talked with two former “salary trolls” and found out how much they pay for positive posts about Vladimir Putin.
Company employees say that they got a job, not assuming what to write about. According to D. (the interlocutors of the Business Petersburg do not reveal their names), she was informed that she would lead the “live magazine” “like a housewife, only from the office”; The test task also did not concern politics.
The full -time blogger should give ten posts a day on various topics, most often - a reaction to news with “correct conclusions”. “Conventionally, you write that tasty pies have baked today, and at the end it is good to live in Russia, and Putin is good,” D. says, the subject of technical tasks concerned Syria, Putin’s actions, the condemnation of US President Barack Obama. The leaders of the company asked to positively speak about the accession of Crimea. There were no tasks of writing anything about the leaders of the opposition, including Alexei Navalny.
The company conducts “ideological work” with employees, political scientists act with lectures in front of paid bloggers. However, as a rule, in “Internet research” they work not from beliefs, but for the sake of the high salary by the standards of St. Petersburg - about 40 thousand rubles. per month.
“The girl Alena, whom I knew before, for example, was washed perfectly brains. Until the fact that she hung a huge pomp of Shoigu on the wall and told everyone that he, of course, is a bunny, but he was watching us all. ”