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Russian bots swarm Italian users over Moscow attack
Just hours after Putin suggested that Ukraine was linked with the Crocus City Hall terrorist incident, Italians debating these matters online were flooded by comments disseminating that very message. It’s the latest example of the Kremlin’s attempts to influence online discourse ahead of the EU elections
Just hours after Putin suggested that Ukraine was linked with the Crocus City Hall terrorist incident, Italians debating these matters online were flooded by comments disseminating that very message. On Saturday evening, just hours after the Russian president’s speech, some Italian users of X (née Twitter) quickly became targets of a bot storm the researcher said was “unprecedented in terms of scale and intensity.” “This is a textbook example of coordinated inauthentic behaviour, a tactic of manipulating flows on a social network to generate high traffic and make fake content trend,” wrote Mr Pugliese on Linkiesta.
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