Reporter and data journalism editor @WSJ, formerly @MiamiHerald.
Dec 5, 2018 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
1/ Another wedge issue Russian trolls tried to amplify: the anti-vaccine debate (if you can call it a debate). Here’s a study about it ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/full/10.21…2/ The trolls were creative. An early tweet, from Dec. 30, 2014, by a user called @darknally, set the stage: “The vaccine mafia is upping the foke stakes in its endless war against free thinking and personal choice.”
“Vaccine mafia”? Is that a thing?
Oct 4, 2018 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
Look how Russian information warfare works:
A group calling itself the CyberCaliphate hacks a newspaper in Albuquerque, defacing its website. “You'll see no mercy infidels,” they write on Christmas Eve 2014. "With Allah's permission we begin with Albuquerque." santafenewmexican.com/news/local_new…
