In one example highlighted by the researchers, a Mail Online story last month about the Taliban's victory in Afghanistan featured 2,500 comments from the public.By selecting a small number of comments, a Russian news article was then headlined: "The British have compared the rise of the Taliban to power with the end of Western civilisation".
Sometimes those posting were accused by others on the site of being Russian trolls but in most cases they did not respond. These would be published in Russia, but also other European countries, particularly Bulgaria. These would then be further amplified on social media platforms, including Telegram.Prof Martin Innes said the "sophisticated" campaign takes advantage of the fact that while social media sites have put more resources into detecting influence campaigns, traditional mainstream sites have fewer security measures to stop people creating multiple, false identities.
Known this for at least TEN YEARS. No one acted upon it in the NAME OF FREE SPEECH. Now the world is rancid because of INACTION!
Russia don’t need trolls. Nobody could do a better job of denigrating, undermining western society than most western regimes, aided & abetted by the media. West is now akin to the old Soviet Union, rampant, corruption, senile leaders who don’t lead, financially/morally bankrupt
Well we can’t have these trolls questioning these absolute pillars of truth and objectivity now can we!