Russian trolls revisited

LAAS LEIVAT

Russian trolls, they are also known as web brigades, troll farms, Russia’s troll army, Russian bots, troll factory, Putin’s bots and Kremlin bots.

They were detected in April 2003, when Vesnik Online posted the article “The Virtual Eye of Big Brother” by French journalist Anna Polyanskova who had been a former assistant to an assassinated Russian opposition politician, and two other authors Andrey Krivov and Ivan Lomako.

Their article stated that up 1998-1999 comments and observations on the Russian internet supported liberal and democratic views. After 2000 the vast majority of these postings were of an anti-democratic, totalitarian nature.

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