Some in depth analysis of the Russian troll networks workings 1. So the message appears for the first time in an obscure INDIAN troll account. 2. Then the next high level trolls (basically country targeted disinformation agents) use it, but give it their own text, as not to be too obvious that it is copied by all. Now there are four (or even more) variants of it. 3. The Estonian account cannot be traced back to Nonny V, but since she tweeted hours later she still must have used that image. After the high level trolls, some more country-targeted trolls come, who might either just retweet the message or also write their own texts with it. 4. Because these smaller trolls take up the retweeting, credibility goes to the high-end trolls. 5. But also something interesting happens. Even a bigger Troll picks up several of the high-end troll messages. This one is Novorossiya, but Anastasia does the same and so does Jewish Russophile. It means Novorossiya gathers several of the different versions of the troll-tweets from the network and spams it onto the net. Thats why it has 100k tweets. But also it has many followers because it has the most info and others will pick up the messages from there again.
Posted on: Sun, 15 Jun 2014 23:24:58 +0000
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