Warum wir 3 Millionen russische Troll-Tweets teilen

I know this is about intervention in US politics, but, as we all know by now, Russian trolls interfere in Europe as well. They *will* interfere in national and EU elections later this year. This post is mainly about US elections in 2016, but things have only gotten worse since then. Much, much worse.

>“There were more tweets in the year after the election than there were in the year before the election,” Warren said. “I want to shout this from the rooftops. This is not just an election thing. **It’s a continuing intervention** in the political conversation in America.”
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“They are trying to divide our country,” Linvill added.

Same goes for Europe.

We really need to do more about Russian trolls and propaganda. They pose one of the greatest threats to our democratic societies. This subreddit itself is being heavily invaded by Russian trolls, pushing the most divisive content.

>“Russia’s attempts to distract, divide, and demoralize has been called a form of political war,” the authors conclude in their paper. “This analysis has given insight into the methods the IRA used to engage in this war.”

Russia already declared cyberwar on the West. We’re already at cyberwar with Putin. Why are most politicians not getting this?

Excited to see the data on the crazy number of pro-palestine bots in a few years.

Russia is undermining political opinions, bribing politicians, killing people on European soil. Imagine Goebbels could broadcast propaganda everywhere, this could change the course of WWII, that’s what Russia is doing now. Europe need to take action now with counter-propaganda and by blocking everything tied with Russia asap, before too many people are on their hook.