Russia’s trolling on Ukraine gets ‘incredible traction’ on TikTok
by Robert Booth from World news | The Guardian on (#5YRGY)
US social media researcher says authentic-seeming accounts have hundreds of thousands of followers
Russia's online trolling operation is becoming increasingly decentralised and is gaining incredible traction" on TikTok with misinformation aimed at sowing doubt over events in Ukraine, a US social media researcher has warned.
Darren Linvill, professor at Clemson University, South Carolina, who has been studying the Kremlin-linked Internet Research Agency (IRA) troll farm operation since 2017, said it was succeeding in creating more authentic-seeming posts.
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