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May 1 • 10 tweets • 5 min read
U.K. says it discovered ‘sick’ Russian troll factory

“We cannot allow the Kremlin and its shady troll farms to invade our online spaces with their lies about Putin’s illegal war,” Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said in a statement.

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“The UK Government has alerted international partners and will continue to work closely with allies and media platforms to undermine Russian information operations.”

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The “sick” organization is working from St. Petersburg, with paid employees and internal working teams, the U.K. government said in a press release.

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Instead of relying on bots, which are automated accounts that spam content, the operation is using the messaging app Telegram to recruit and coordinate supporters who then target social media profiles with pro-war and pro-Kremlin content.

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"These are insidious attempts by Putin and his propaganda machine to deceive the world about the brutality he’s inflicting on the people of Ukraine," said U.K. Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries...

More about this: 👇

gov.uk/government/new…

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The Kremlin's troll tactics, per U.K. expert research 👇

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U.K. has also directly sanctioned Russia's state media organizations, targeting the Kremlin-funded TV-Novosti who owns RT, formerly Russia Today, and Rossiya Segodnya who control news agency Sputnik.

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Kremlin's cyber soldiers are ruthlessly targeting politicians and audiences across a number of countries including the #UK, #SouthAfrica and #India, research indicates...

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The evidence shows the troll factory is using Telegram to actively recruit and co-ordinate new supporters who then target the social media profiles of Kremlin critics - spamming them with pro-Putin and pro-war comments.

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The research exposes how the Kremlin’s large-scale disinformation campaign is designed to manipulate international public opinion of Russia’s illegitimate war in Ukraine, trying to grow support for their abhorrent war, and recruiting new Putin sympathisers.

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“They have destroyed the lives of millions... They started a full-scale war and act as if we are to blame for this”

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Over the last 24 hours or so, the U.S. has continued to observe more than 250 Russian missile launches, mostly short-range ballistic missiles, the official said.

"We continue to see civilian infrastructure and residential areas impacted and damaged by these missile strikes."
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