By Jordi Pérez Colomé (El País)
“I led a troll team of 10 people. In the sector, we find much larger teams ” : these are the revelations of a community manager who has spent a good part of the last ten years within an international agency which offered artificial amplification services of messages on Twitter. “I have worked on projects in five countries, including Spain. There is a real demand for this type of contract which is not advertised in the yellow pages , ”he says.
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Based on this experience, he now wishes to openly reveal how this shadow business works, capable of influencing public opinion. In recent weeks, he began to tell some details about it on a Twitter account ironically called @thebotruso. El País , who was able to ensure that he had worked well within the agency, exchanged dozens of messages with @thebotruso to find out how
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