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Russian Internet trolls
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MH17 crash days: Russian trolls generated over 100K tweets, at least 65K to blame Ukraine
IRA trolls and MH17 Robert van der Noordaa and Coen van de Ven, journalists at De Groene Amsterdammer, analyzed…
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…
Belarus already under Russian troll attack designed to give Moscow a base for further aggression
Belarus meets all three requirements as a target for a hybrid war and then use it as a…
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…
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…
Inside RT and Sputnik: What is it like to work for Kremlin’s propaganda media?
As awareness about the issue of disinformation grows globally, those working for RT and Sputnik find themselves under…
Containment of Putin’s Russia in today’s globalized world won’t be easy or even enough
Ever more people are calling for the containment of Putin’s Russia and some are even celebrating that the…
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…
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…
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…
Internet, not TV, now Moscow’s main propaganda channel for Baltic countries, Lithuanian expert says
Moscow now views the Internet as its primary propaganda channel in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania because that medium…
Facebook representative to visit Ukraine
Popular Ukrainian users of Facebook who are increasingly being blocked on the social network are convinced that this…
Russian government Internet trolls effective in forming pro-Putin opinion among youth
Many assume that Russians who turn to the Internet will form very different opinions about Vladimir Putin than…