Washington Free Beacon: Russian Twitter Bots Troll NATO
Report says automated tweets targeting alliance military activities in E. Europe traced to Moscow trolls.
Seventy percent of Russian-language tweets targeting NATO military activities in Eastern Europe are generated by automated Russian trolls, according to a survey done by the military alliance.
"Two in three Twitter users who write in Russian about the NATO presence in Eastern Europe are robotic or ‘bot' accounts," the NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence stated in a report made public this week.
The Russian bots sent 84 percent of all Russian language messages. English language tweets against the alliance also were found to be automated, with some 46 percent generated by automated Twitter accounts.
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WNU Editor: The U.S. concern is that this is all just a prelude to the 2018 election campaign .... Pro-Russian Bots Sharpen Online Attacks for 2018 U.S. Vote (Bloomberg).
Update: This is also probably will become the norm to handle this issue .... Twitter suspends Russian news channel's 'British embassy' account (The Guardian).
