From Anonymous Coward : Troll Farms as Search Engine Optimization ( SEO )

 I found this comment from someone  who named themselves  "Anonymous coward" looks like a troll farm recruiting add

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Troll farms use standard SEO to drive traffic

One method is providing back-links. Comments is another tool. Old-school forum spam techniques are often used: flame and flood.

Causing political instability is probably the main goal. LGBT/trans topic has been surprisingly effective to divide Americans. Example: YT channel TFP Student Action (youtube.com/@tfpstudentaction) has a definite flame narrative. I bet, a lot of comments and likes are fake.

Comment flood is used to do dilute informative or political comments with noise. Example: a Balarus government site, with top comments filled with short templated condolences: youtube.com/watch?v=uYlQZ2q9DUE

Then fake likes are used to push the comments up. Not only bots are active, but also work-from-home accounts. This is a form of SEO jobs employment.

Prigozhin was a boss of famous troll farms. One recent way to spot Russian-sponsored media is to look at 1-2 days right after Prigozhin's death just to see zero posts related to his death. It is because the media follow strict instructions ("методички"). His death was extremely news-worthy, but a taboo to discuss there. One such Russian channel: youtube.com/@SMILEFACEru

Back-links from sputnik-magazin.de, or Russian news sites is a shortcut to spot channels resonating with political instability goals of the campaigns. Those channels are:

www.youtube.com/@tfpstudentaction (mentioned above)

www.youtube.com/@RedactedNews

www.youtube.com/@RussellBrand

www.youtube.com/@VALUETAINMENT

www.youtube.com/@UnHerd

www.youtube.com/@RedPilledTV

www.youtube.com/@usefulidiots

www.youtube.com/@lenapetrova

www.youtube.com/@thejimmydoreshow

www.youtube.com/@TheKatieHalperShow

An innovative form of money laundering can be employed for channel owners, assuming some of them may be recruited by foreign intelligence. Even if the sites are not paid directly by the adversary, it is sufficient to be paid indirectly through YouTube ads, while getting sponsored by the adversary fake comments, likes, and back-links, therefore traffic to the channel.

TechLead has posted a great video "The TRUTH is a psyop... faking outrage and virtue for money." : youtube.com/watch?v=Ox9wSYb86OY

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I make no claim except this requires investigation- comment seems have been made about August 2023