Research concludes the Maidan Square snipers were anti-government militants.

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109. Limiting data and analysis selection to publication which inherently validate your own conclusions

Limiting data and analysis selection to publication which inherently validate your own conclusions is by its very definition, bias.

However, I completely understand the schools of thought which may entertain such pretenses. Journalists investigation into the leaked information found that the pro-Kremlin movement had been engaging in all kinds of digital activities, including paying commentators to post content and hijacking blog ratings ( "Kremlin's Blogshop" by Anastasia Karimova, Izvestia) and that a Freedom House report stated that Russia has been using paid commentators to manipulate online discussions and has been at the forefront of this practice for several years (Russia's Online-Comment Propaganda Army, The Atlantic, by Olga Khazan)

Further investigations were performed by Novaya Gazeta and Institute of Modern Russia in 2014–15, inspired by the peak of activity of the pro-Russian brigades during war in Donbass and assassination of Boris Nemtsov. The effort of using "troll armies" to promote Putin's policies is a multimillion-dollar operation. According to The Guardian investigation the flood of pro-Russian comments is part of a coordinated "informational-psychological war operation". One Twitter bots network was documented to use over 20'500 fake Twitter accounts to spam hateful comments after assassination of Boris Nemtsov and events related to the war in Donbass (Lawrence Alexander's "Social Network Analysis Reveals Full Scale of Kremlin's Twitter Bot Campaign)

Stated much better than I could, "The effect created by such Internet trolls is not very big, but they manage to make certain forums meaningless because people stop commenting on the articles when these trolls sit there and constantly create an aggressive, hostile atmosphere toward those whom they don’t like. The trolls react to certain news with torrents of mud and abuse. This makes it meaningless for a reasonable person to comment on anything there..." ("Internet Troll Operation Uncovered in St. Petersburg", The St. Petersburg Times, by Sergey Chernov).

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