THREAD: It is important to realise that troll farms deliberately engage in subtle tactics on an extremely large scale to encourage argument and polarisation on sensitive topics. The goal is to further the foreign policy of their employer by eventually making /1

compromise and understanding on those issues meaningless. It is a tried and tested method of subversion applied to the era of the internet. A lecture on it from the Cold War can be found here: /2

a summary of the methods of these online agitators can be found here:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_web_brigades /3

the best way to identify these accounts is:
no identifiable facial profile picture
small number of followers
often recently created, but some are older
If you suspect this is happening (an account starting to inflame on sensitive issues) /4

call it out as a possible troll farm actor
report to Twitter as a fake account
block. /e #Russia #BreakingNews

P.S. your goal must be to immediately shut down the agitation by not adding fuel to the fire by arguing or being outraged and also to help others recognise what is happening, so that the outrage fizzles out.