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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…
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…
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…
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,…
