Pro-Gun Russian Bots Flood Twitter After Parkland Shooting
Pro-Gun Russian Bots Flood Twitter After Parkland Shooting
Security, Spoken · SpokenLayer
February 20, 20187m 29s
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Show Notes
Each new breaking news situation is an opportunity for trolls to grab attention, provoke emotions, and spread propaganda. The Russian government knows this. Fake-news manufacturing teenagers in Macedonia know this. Twitter bot creators know this. And thanks to data-gathering operations from groups like the Alliance for Securing Democracy and RoBhat Labs, the world knows this.
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