Russia is repeatedly accused of operating troll farms or spreading covert influence and commence targeted disinformation.
And since the election of Donald Trump as President of the USA Russia has been accused of meddling in the US election.
Against this presumed influence institutions were founded such as EUvsDisinfo (EU), DisinfoPortal (Atlantic Council), StopFake (USA), BellingCat (UK) and FactFinder (DE).
Meanwhile the consulting firm New Knowledge has published a report on the activities of the St. Petersburg Internet Research Agency on behalf of the US Congress. It repeates the usual allegations against Russia. [1] In addition it was announced that the CEO of the consulting firm New Knowledge was involved in a secret project during a Senate election in Alabama in 2017. In this secret project artificial Twitter profiles were created to discredit a Republican Senate candidate and Facebook pages were created to spread rumors and support for other candidates. The project was funded by a US billionaire and costed 100,000 US-Dollar. An internal report explicitly described it as a sophisticated false-flag operation to simulate a Russian botnet. [2]
[1] The Disinformation Report
https://www.newknowledge.com/disinforeport
[2] Secret Experiment in Alabama Senate Race Imitated Russian Tactics 2018-12-19
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/19/us/alabama-senate-roy-jones-russia.html
[3] BREAKING: Here’s The After-Action Report From the Alabama Senate Disinformation Campaign| 2018-12-27
https://medium.com/@jeffgiesea/breaking-heres-the-after-action-report-from-the-alabama-senate-disinformation-campaign-e3edd854f17d
Meanwhile the consulting firm New Knowledge has published a report on the activities of the St. Petersburg Internet Research Agency on behalf of the US Congress. It repeates the usual allegations against Russia. [1] In addition it was announced that the CEO of the consulting firm New Knowledge was involved in a secret project during a Senate election in Alabama in 2017. In this secret project artificial Twitter profiles were created to discredit a Republican Senate candidate and Facebook pages were created to spread rumors and support for other candidates. The project was funded by a US billionaire and costed 100,000 US-Dollar. An internal report explicitly described it as a sophisticated false-flag operation to simulate a Russian botnet. [2]
We orchestrated an elaborate ‘false flag’ operation that planted the idea that the Moore campaign was amplified on social media by a Russian botnet [2]Now in addition the internal original report on the secret project was leaked. It documents the multi-part strategy about the methods and achieved goals. The methods used actually coincide with the allegations against Russia.
- We performed rapid, repetitive, and sustain targeting of a select group of 650k likely AL voters on facebook, resulting in 6,17m impression to Alabamas over the course of the campaign (not countig additional organic reach of an estimated + 5m).
- In total we manufactured approximately 45k Twitter followers, 350k Retweets, 370k Tweet Favorites, 6k Facebook Comments, 10k Facebook reactions, 300k Imgur upvotes and 10k Reddit upvotes. Forcing tageted communities to interact with our narratives.
- ... we provided major news outlets with 4 million social signals (web traffic, clicks, comments, sharing) ...
- Our campaign was cheap and anonymous ...
[1] The Disinformation Report
https://www.newknowledge.com/disinforeport
[2] Secret Experiment in Alabama Senate Race Imitated Russian Tactics 2018-12-19
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/19/us/alabama-senate-roy-jones-russia.html
[3] BREAKING: Here’s The After-Action Report From the Alabama Senate Disinformation Campaign| 2018-12-27
https://medium.com/@jeffgiesea/breaking-heres-the-after-action-report-from-the-alabama-senate-disinformation-campaign-e3edd854f17d
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