The Russian Trolls

The news is everywhere:

Russian Hacking and Influence in the US Election
Cardin: Russia’s election meddling is ‘an act of war’
Russia’s election posts reached 126 million people, Facebook will tell …
Russia hackers had targets worldwide, beyond US election
Russia hackers pursued Putin foes, not just US Democrats
Russian election meddling: Should tech giants have …

Purpotedly most of this targeted influence was orchestrated by Russia’s Internet Research Agency.

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The trolls’ reported St Petersburg lair. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)

Reviewing these articles reveals that there are at least several different ways that social media meddling has occurred.  Another issues is how do we measure the actual influence that these post have had on the public.

How would you know that it was a computer that was spreading viral fake news

 

 

Reference Articles

  1. https://www.buzzfeed.com/maxseddon/documents-show-how-russias-troll-army-hit-america?utm_term=.up6lgBovDz#.xyRvMd30LR
  2. https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/07/magazine/the-agency.html?_r=0

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