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A caravan of bots, and other news from the misinformation wars
Despite the efforts of the social platforms, the bots are getting more active — and more subtle.
Russia’s trolling operations are effective, but not sophisticated
Russia’s Troll Operation Was Not That Sophisticated: The Russians tracked how well what they were posting was connecting with people. “In order to gauge the performance of various groups on social media sites, the ORGANIZATION tracked certain metrics like…
An early sign of Russia’s infowars
I think we can safely file this 2016 New York Times piece under the “we should have taken this more seriously” category: But pro-Russian voices have become such a noisy and disruptive presence that both NATO and the European Union…
Underestimating the digital power of Russia's intelligence operations
Buzzfeed: In an internal memo to CIA employees last December, CIA Director John Brennan complained that some members of Congress he had briefed about the agency’s assessment that Russia interfered in the US presidential election did not “understand and…
Life in the Kremlin's troll farm
This is a fascinating piece of journalism, looking at the hyper-organised manipulators of social media: I was already investigating a shadowy organization in St. Petersburg, Russia, that spreads false information on the Internet. It has gone by a few names,…