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Russia’s 2020 Disinformation Operations

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(@lovendures)
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Rolling Stone Magazine has an excellent article on how Russian trolls are influencing our nation.  You might be surprised on how they are doing it.  You likely have been a victim and never knew it.  I have seen at least two of the examples they have given.  

 

-Internet trolls don’t troll. Not the professionals at least. Professional trolls don’t go on social media to antagonize liberals or belittle conservatives. They are not narrow minded, drunk or angry. They don’t lack basic English language skills. They certainly aren’t “somebody sitting on their bed that weighs 400 pounds,” as the president once put it. Your stereotypical trolls do exist on social media, but the amateurs aren’t a threat to Western democracy.

Professional trolls, on the other hand, are the tip of the spear in the new digital, ideological battleground. To combat the threat they pose, we must first understand them — and take them seriously.

Professional trolls are good at their job. They have studied us. They understand how to harness our biases (and hashtags) for their own purposes. They know what pressure points to push and how best to drive us to distrust our neighbors. The professionals know you catch more flies with honey. They don’t go to social media looking for a fight; they go looking for new best friends. And they have found them.

More can be found here:

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/russia-troll-2020-election-interference-twitter-916482/?fbclid=IwAR1fW8mRLlDp2V0DhOyBeXA11A2MbvQ_TBLv9qEQyFCXRySZQ2Kxnz9cO1s


   
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@lovendures

Thank you for sharing this, which is something we all need to be concerned about. 

 


   
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