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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsInfamous Russian Troll Farm Appears to Be Source of Anti-Ukraine Propaganda
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https://www.propublica.org/article/infamous-russian-troll-farm-appears-to-be-source-of-anti-ukraine-propaganda
Just before 11 a.m. Moscow Standard Time on March 1, after a night of Russian strikes on Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities, a set of Russian-language Twitter accounts spread a lie that Ukraine was fabricating civilian casualties.
One account created last year, @Ne_nu_Che, shared a video of a man standing in front of rows of dark gray body bags that appeared to be filled with corpses. As he spoke to the camera, one of the encased bodies behind him lifted its arms to stop the top of the bag from blowing away. The video was taken from an Austrian TV report about a climate change demonstration held in Vienna in February. But @Ne_nu_Che claimed it was from Ukraine.
Four Russian-language Twitter accounts posted a video that they claimed showed Ukrainian media had faked reports of civilian casualties. It is actually an unrelated clip from an Austrian TV report in February. The accounts were later removed by Twitter for violating its platform manipulation and spam policy. Credit: Screenshots captured by ProPublica
Propaganda makes mistakes too, one of the corpses came back to life right as they were counting the deaths of Ukraines civilians, the tweet said.
Eight minutes later, another account, @Enot_Kremle_Bot, tweeted the same video. IM SCREAMING! One of the corpses came back to life during a segment about civilian deaths in the Ukraine. Information war is reaching a new level, they said.
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Infamous Russian Troll Farm Appears to Be Source of Anti-Ukraine Propaganda (Original Post)
Nevilledog
Mar 2022
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dalton99a
(81,486 posts)1. The good old Internet Research Agency
(Агентство интернет-исследований )
55 Savushkina Street in St. Petersburg, Russia, a location used by the Internet Research Agency.
fierywoman
(7,683 posts)2. C'mon Anonymous: hit them!
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)3. +1,000,000!!!
Caliman73
(11,738 posts)5. Seriously!
I applaud Anonymous for hacking in and getting those documents about Russian Government propaganda but they should hit the Russian Troll farm hard.
Crunchy Frog
(26,587 posts)4. ALL of the replies to that tweet are by Russian trolls.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)6. It'd be a shame if Anonymous were to dox all of them.
And somehow they got their asses -um- assets frozen.
uponit7771
(90,339 posts)7. I was thinking the GOP headquarters was going to be on the map