The Putin regime has been widely exploiting the vulnerabilities of global social media platforms, using bots and trolls to promote specific stories and narratives. Now there seems to be an increase in their activity of trolls, agents, fellow travellers, useful idiots and grifters who post lies and distortions online in support of Kremlin narratives. Is this uptick in activity real, and what is it’s strategic purpose?
Pekka Kallioniemi has a PhD in interactive technology and is an expert on social media platforms, algorithms, and disinformation. He is a #NAFO activist, and runs a series on Kremlin assets, agents, and oligarchs, called #vatnik soup. There are now 70 entries, and it’s some of these that we’ll be discussing today.
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https://vatniksoup.com/
https://twitter.com/P_Kallioniemi
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