Russia Reactivates Its Trolls and Bots Ahead of Tuesday's Midterms

[dalton99a]

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/06/technology/russia-misinformation-midterms.html
https://archive.ph/h3tE8

Russia Reactivates Its Trolls and Bots Ahead of Tuesday’s Midterms
Researchers have identified a series of Russian information operations to influence American elections and, perhaps, erode support for Ukraine.
By Steven Lee Myers
Nov. 6, 2022, 5:00 a.m. ET


The St. Petersburg building that is said to be the site of the Russian Internet Research Agency. Cybersecurity researchers have tied the agency to a new Russian misinformation effort. Credit...Mstyslav Chernov/Associated Press

The user on Gab who identifies as Nora Berka resurfaced in August after a yearlong silence on the social media platform, reposting a handful of messages with sharply conservative political themes before writing a stream of original vitriol.

The posts mostly denigrated President Biden and other prominent Democrats, sometimes obscenely. They also lamented the use of taxpayer dollars to support Ukraine in its war against invading Russian forces, depicting Ukraine’s president as a caricature straight out of Russian propaganda.

The fusion of political concerns was no coincidence.

The account was previously linked to the same secretive Russian agency that interfered in the 2016 presidential election and again in 2020, the Internet Research Agency in St. Petersburg, according to the cybersecurity group Recorded Future.

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[underpants]

1. Tons popped up on Twitter

On Elon day one they were suddenly everywhere. I follow a couple of Trump side players and usually they just get ridiculed and laughed at. Suddenly there were lots of supporters (pretty much all posting th same thing). Fellow DU’ers said that 4Chan or whatever were flooding twitter. I don’t know, it was noticeable.

[Irish_Dem]

2. Duh. Putin's only chance to win the war is to force the US to stop aid.

And the way to do that is give his GOP puppets more power.

It is a no brainer for Putin.

[yardwork]

3. I wish people weren't so gullible.

[Lovie777]

4. They never left ........

[Hermit-The-Prog]

5. Has anyone ever proven MTGreene is -not- a Putin bot in android form?