Two New Reports Expose How Black Americans Are Targeted by Russian Disinformation

Thank you for sharing my friend LTC (Join to see) To be honest I doubt the Russian government is behind this.
It seems that Russian criminals are aligning with radical democrats :-)
"Ever since the 2016 election it’s become clearer that ongoing Russian disinformation tactics on social media seek to exploit existing fault lines in American society. Last week, even as the Justice Department announced new charges against a Russian operative running a well-financed conspiracy to interfere with the midterm elections, two new reports exposed how Facebook and Twitter serve as platforms to target black Americans specifically, stoking domestic racism and discord.
First came Twitter’s release of a dataset of nearly 10 million tweets from 3,800 accounts that the company says were operated by the Kremlin-backed Internet Research Agency (IRA). This trove of data caused researchers at the University of Washington to reconsider the role Russian propagandists may have played in dynamics those researchers previously observed on the network. With the list of newly identified Russian accounts in hand, researchers including Kate Starbird, Ahmer Arif and Leo Stewart combed over datasets assembled to look at activity involving Black Lives Matter, and for the first time were able to distinguish the Russian effort clearly.
Starbird and her colleagues study how social media discourse evolves. Armed with the new dataset of IRA accounts, they reconsidered the results from a recent paper that dealt with the framing of Twitter arguments around racial justice and social movements. Generally, the paper explored how social media networks allow for framing and gatekeeping around ideas and issues, allowing groups to define and collectively produce and amplify ideas related to the discussion.
The UW researchers looked at tens of millions of tweets in their analyses. Perhaps it is unsurprising to see that clusters emerge among left-leaning and right-leaning groups in discussions involving hashtags such as #BlackLivesMatter. But when the researchers went back to their findings with the identified IRA accounts, they could see the impact of the Russian effort on the discourse. More vividly, they could see the IRA accounts clearly visualized in their network analysis. "

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LTC (Join to see) Reliable information is scarce on anything in these times.

Many people read, rely upon and faithfully share information from internet sites for their “news”.

No small wonder that Russia, China and ? utilize the ‘net for disinformation!

Would that be why some countries restrict internet access for their citizens?

Any competent enemy seeks an opening for advantage. Like there aren't many openings in the United States when it comes to anything involving race in this country.