Troll Factories: Manufacturing Specialized Disinformation on Twitter

@AndreasSteno There's evidence that they fund movements on the Left and Right. The troll farms befriend rather than offend, building the extremes and creating greater polarization. Troll Factories: https://t.co/1NLrYIp5Z5

I'd say there are 3 main ways the IRA try to intersect with news: 1. Trying to get into real news media 2. Coordination with public diplomacy and white(/grey) propaganda 3. Pretending to be news aggregators (see @DarrenLinvill & @plwarre's work) 4/

I'm not sure if anybody suggested this yet, but there's a great piece by Carter and Carter (2021) on Russian outward-facing propaganda on US citizens' support for an active foreign policy. https://t.co/Myb6Eo2uDB Linvill and Warren (2020) is also good. ht

@claasconscienti Und https://t.co/sprpWj8HUT Ist klar, dass bei solchen Themen politische Überzeugungen und wissenschaftliche Einschätzungen ineinander gehen. Das heißt aber nicht, dass darüber wissenschaftlich nichts gesagt werden könnte ...