24-11-2017, 14:26
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Cable Forum Team
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Lack of Evidence of Social Media Russian Propaganda to Political Campaigns in West
Well well well....
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There is a lack of evidence supporting claims that the Kremlin used Facebook and Twitter to interfere in political debates in the West.
False personas and bots are openly visible on both social media platforms, primarily seeking to drive traffic to pornographic websites.
Facebook and Twitter's failure to tackle the mass exploitation of their platforms for spam campaigns is a technical failure. There is certainly no reason to suspect that astroturfers (people presenting synthetic campaigns as if they were grassroots-led) would not be exploiting it, too.
But attempts to tie those astoturfing campaigns to an organised conspiracy by the Russian government have not been accompanied by key evidence.
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https://news.sky.com/story/long-read...cking-11137255
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