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A. In Finland Jessikka Aro works for the Finnish national broadcaster YLE. In 2014, she was investigating the existence of pro-Russian troll factories. She was looking for evidences of a pro-Kremlin propaganda in Europe. Soon after Aro started looking into the story, she became the target of a systematic campaign of abuse

which has continued to the present day. Her personal information including her address, contact details and so on has appeared online. Besides, trolls have spread fake stories about her. Those fake news could have destroyed her life (They made a connection between her and racist neo-nazis websites, wrote she were a drug dealer‌..)


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