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EXCLUSIVE: Talk of Russian trolls has been quieter as of late, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t hard at work with sowing chaos and disinformation. https://trib.al/2HSXejq ">https://trib.al/2HSXejq&q...
A new Daily Beast investigation reveals that dozens of Russian accounts are pushing conspiracy theories about everything from Joe Biden to how the novel coronavirus crisis began. https://trib.al/TG7FJ6s ">https://trib.al/TG7FJ6s&q...
Here’s some of what Russian trolls have been up to:
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🦠" title="Microbe" aria-label="Emoji: Microbe"> Pinning COVID-19 on the Pentagon
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🗳️" title="Ballot box with ballot" aria-label="Emoji: Ballot box with ballot">Hyping Giuliani’s collusion theories between Dems and Ukraine
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🇪🇺" title="Flag of European Union" aria-label="Emoji: Flag of European Union">Meddling in European elections https://trib.al/TG7FJ6s ">https://trib.al/TG7FJ6s&q...
Teaming with dis-info researchers from Graphika, we found at least 20 fake news articles pushed by over 40 suspected Kremlin-backed personas published across social media networks like Facebook, Reddit, and Medium https://trib.al/TG7FJ6s ">https://trib.al/TG7FJ6s&q...
"This looks like a Russian disinformation operation we call & #39;Secondary Infektion& #39; that& #39;s been running for years," said @benimmo, director of investigations at Graphika https://trib.al/TG7FJ6s ">https://trib.al/TG7FJ6s&q...
Nimmo and Graphika have been at the forefront of the fake news investigation since Facebook exposed the first set of accounts in May 2019 https://trib.al/TG7FJ6s ">https://trib.al/TG7FJ6s&q...
”It uses blogging platforms as the soft underbelly of the internet, planting false stories based on forged documents or leaks that never happened,” says Nimmo https://trib.al/TG7FJ6s ">https://trib.al/TG7FJ6s&q...
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