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scipan

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5. analysis
Thu Oct 18, 2018, 03:18 PM
Oct 2018
Other than in the United States, the troll operations do not appear to have had significant influence on public debate. There is no evidence to suggest that they triggered large-scale changes in political behavior, purely on the basis of their social media posts.

Conclusions
The Russian and Iranian troll farm operations show that American society was deeply vulnerable, not to all troll farm operations, but to troll accounts of a particular type. That type hid behind carefully crafted personalities, produced original and engaging content, infiltrated activist and engaged communities, and posted in hyper-partisan, polarizing terms.


https://medium.com/dfrlab/trolltracker-twitter-troll-farm-archives-8d5dd61c486b

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