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Computational social scientists found that 40,000 American Twitter users retweeted Russian trolls more than 80,000 times in a single month before the 2016 election. By Rashmi Shivni.
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia — Deep inside a four-story marble building in St. Petersburg, hundreds of workers tap away at computers on the front lines of an information war, say those who have bee… ...
Russia’s troll army has stalled amid Vladimir Putin’s war on Ukraine, according to a new report from Facebook’s parent company. Meta Says Russia’s Covert Troll Farms Are Failing ...
Former trolls said the goal was to divide U.S., not promote Russia. — -- On the outskirts of St. Petersburg, Russia, inside an unassuming office building, people who claim to have worked ...
On Wednesday, Twitter released a collection of more than 10 million tweets related to thousands of accounts affiliated with Russia’s Internet Research Agency propaganda outfit, as well as ...
Russian blogger Marat Burkhard told Radio Free Europe that working in an infamous "troll factory" generating fake internet posts and comments was "Orwellian." "Whatever we're told, that's what we ...
In 2015, she went undercover and got a job at the troll factory writing fake news in Russian. A shaky video is the only glimpse she has now of the group's work. "I knew there were people working ...