Trolls, Trump and Russian wrath

LAAS LEIVAT

Jessika Aro was for a while a victim of the Russian Trolls wrath. But she hasn’t submitted to their intimidation and has engaged them in battle for the truth.

Aro, born in 1980, a Finnish journalist, began investigating Russian internet Trolls in 2014, seeing them as “a threat to Finnish people’s freedom of speech”.

After interviewing people working in the ‘Troll factory’ in St. Petersburg who were using fake on-line accounts and creating fake news, she experienced abusive vindictiveness including a phone call in which pistol shot was heard and a text message from her dead father indicating he was watching her. Russian nationalist websites claimed she was working for Western intelligence services. The Trolls claimed she had been a “NATO drug dealer” because at the age of 18 she had been convicted of drug possession.

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