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Information Warfare: Gauging Trolls’ Influence on Democracy

CIA Director Mike Pompeo says he’s seen no “significant decrease” in Russian information warfare activity. Pompeo predicts it will not decline before November’s mid-term elections. Congress launched an investigation into Russian interference and released Twitter accounts flagged as being used by Russian trolls. Researchers looked at what they say are “27,000 tweets posted by 1,000 Twitter users identified as having ties with Russia’s Internet Research Agency and thus likely state-sponsored trolls” The researchers say the quantifiable impact of the “trolls’ influence” on other Twitter, Reddit and 4chan users over a 21-month period “was not substantial””]

Source: https://www.careersinfosecurity.com/information-warfare-gauging-trolls-influence-on-democracy-a-10615

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