Russian campaign on Twitter and Facebook aims to splinter America
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September 29 2017

Commentary by Eoin Treacy

Russian campaign on Twitter and Facebook aims to splinter America

This article by Rhys Blakely for The Times may be of interest to subscribers. Here is a section: 

Thousands of Twitter accounts linked to the Kremlin were churning out material designed to splinter America along political, racial and religious lines yesterday, even as tech executives arrived at Capitol Hill to field questions on Russian meddling in last year’s US election.

An analysis of 600 Twitter accounts linked by the German Marshall Fund, a think tank, to the Russian government has provided the most vivid insight yet into how the Kremlin is seeking to use social media to undermine western societies.

 

Eoin Treacy's view

United we stand, divided we fall. The Russians and Chinese know that as well as anyone. Maybe Western constitutional democracies need to wake up to that reality. 

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