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"ref": "2008 October 21, jeff goh, soc.culture.singapore (Usenet):",
"text": "Anyway, I wouldn't be surprised if you're just another one of the PAP internet brigade.",
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"ref": "2009 January 11, “Has the PAP Internet Brigade lost its teeth?”, in Sgpolitics, archived from the original on 2016-05-29:",
"text": "This so-called “PAP Internet Brigade” was also accused of creating multiple monikers in various internet forums such as the once-popular Sammyboy Alfresco Coffeeshop forum and disrupting threads critical of the PAP by engaging in flame wars, personal attacks, defamatory statements, and impersonations.",
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"ref": "2013 January 5, TheInquirer, soc.culture.singapore (Usenet):",
"text": "Some of these comments could be done deliberately by people in the \"Internet brigade\" with the sole intention of creating trouble for Alex Au.",
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"ref": "2014 June 8, Harry, soc.culture.singapore (Usenet):",
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"ref": "2016 July 7, Ng E-Jay, “Internet brigade continue to game Facebook's algorithm to get activists banned and censored”, in The Independent (Singapore):",
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"ref": "2017 March 1, “Government hires internet brigade to defend Lee Hsien Loong on BBC Facebook”, in States Times Review, Singapore: States Times Review, archived from the original on 2017-11-02:",
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"ref": "2021 August 7, “IN FOCUS: ‘Boomer, snowflake, oppie, pappie’ - unpacking the growing social media polarisation in Singapore”, in Channel NewsAsia, Singapore: Chanmel NewsAsia, retrieved 2023-12-21:",
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