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Russian Internet trolls

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  2019/06/26 - 18:18 • Hybrid War

  MH17 crash days: Russian trolls generated over 100K tweets, at least 65K...

  IRA trolls and MH17 Robert van der Noordaa and Coen van de Ven, journalists at De Groene Amsterdammer, analyzed tweets posted by accounts linked to the Internet Research Agency (IRA, aka troll factory), which were disclosed by Twitter in...

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  2019/01/22 - 17:24 • Hybrid War

  Facebook removed 364 propaganda pages and accounts of Russian origin

  In short, Facebook has managed to identify 364 pages that claim to be independent news pages, but in reality – a part of a coordinated operation, lead from Russian state actors. In this case – state-owned Russian agency, Sputnik....

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  2019/01/02 - 17:01 • International, Russian Aggression

  Belarus already under Russian troll attack designed to give Moscow a base...

  Belarus meets all three requirements as a target for a hybrid war and then use it as a base to attack other countries in a similar way, Russian commentator Yury Christensen says. Moreover, Belarusians say, Moscow is already conducting...

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  2018/08/04 - 19:35 • Hybrid War, International, More

  Moscow outlined ‘information spetsnaz’ techniques over a decade ago, Shtepa says

  In the wake of the Helsinki summit, Moscow’s state information service Russia Today baldly declared that “Russia has defeated the US in the information war,” arguing that this had happened because Russia with its centralized approach...

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  2018/04/21 - 13:20 • International, More

  Moscow inserts political operatives into African countries where elections are scheduled

  Even as the United States and other Western countries wrestle with the question of how involved Russian operatives were in recent elections and referendums in their countries, Moscow appears to be upping the ante by sending more such...

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  2017/06/10 - 03:51 • International

  Inside RT and Sputnik: What is it like to work for Kremlin’s...

  As awareness about the issue of disinformation grows globally, those working for RT and Sputnik find themselves under increasing scrutiny, and whistleblowers begin to appear more frequently. Thanks to testimonies that surface from inside...

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  2017/05/17 - 09:22 • International, More

  Containment of Putin’s Russia in today’s globalized world won’t be easy or...

  Ever more people are calling for the containment of Putin’s Russia and some are even celebrating that the West has already been taking the necessary first steps in that direction, but such appeals and even more such celebrations fail to...

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  2016/07/14 - 01:35 • International, More

  Kremlin propaganda successfully exploiting five American vulnerabilities, Kirillova says

  Lenin said that Marxism was powerful because it was true; his successors in the Kremlin have been as successful with their propaganda as they have been because they carefully tailor their messages and techniques to whatever audiences they...

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  2016/06/27 - 08:27 • More

  Putin using Western values to destroy the West, Moscow analyst says

  Moscow commentator Andrey Malgin delivers a warning that no one should ignore: Vladimir Putin, he argues, “will use Western values like direct democracy (referenda), freedom of speech and assembly and all the rest for the destruction of...

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  2016/06/21 - 00:03 • More

  Kremlin trolls are engaged in massive anti-Ukrainian propaganda in Poland

  Warsaw — Kremlin “trolls” have launched a massive campaign to discredit Ukraine and Ukrainians in the Polish Internet space. Polish analysts note that an unprecedented wave of anti-Ukrainian propaganda on the Web first...

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