|
REVEALED: Sophisticated Russian trolls are luring Twitter users to their accounts with heartwarming posts - then spreading disinformation to build distrust ahead of the 2020 election
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] - Clemson University professors and Russian trolling experts Darren Linvill and Patrick Warren reveal how Russia's 2020 disinformation operations work
- They say that Russian trolls create Twitter accounts that appear to be run by Americans and share uplifting and heartwarming messages as a 'Trojan horse'
- After building a following the accounts then spew divisive tweets
- The controversial tweets are designed to plant distrust in the U.S. government
- Linvill and Warren spent two years studying online disinformation to understand Russian strategy and combed through data Twitter released to the public
- Together they worked with Twitter to suspend Russian-operated accounts
- They say these kinds of accounts are run by Russia's Internet Research Agency
- The IRA was the very group that was at the center of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation for interference in the 2016 presidential election
Posted by: Skidmark 2019-11-26 |
