Current Events > Tumblr confirms 84 accounts linked to Kremlin 'trolls'

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https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/23/tumblr-confirms-84-accounts-linked-to-kremlin-trolls/

Tumblr has confirmed that Kremlin trolls were active on its platform during the 2016 US presidential elections.

In a blog post today the social platform writes that it is taking steps to protect against future interference in our political conversation by state-sponsored propaganda campaigns.

The company has also started emailing users who interacted with 84 accounts it now says it has linked to the Russian trollfarm, the Internet Research Agency (IRA).

The IRA engages in electronic disinformation and propaganda campaigns around the world using phony social media accounts. When we uncovered these accounts, we notified law enforcement, terminated the accounts, and deleted their original posts.

Last month Buzzfeed News working with researcher, Jonathan Albright, from the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University claimed to have unearthed substantial Kremlin troll activity on Tumblrs meme-laden platform identifying what they dubbed as a powerful, largely unrevealed network of Russian trolls focused on black issues and activism which they said dated back to early 2015.

The trolls were reported to be using Tumblr to push anti-Clinton messages, including by actively promoting Democrat rival Bernie Sanders.
Decrying racial injustice and police violence in the US was another theme of the Russian-linked content.

and guys like admiral, caution and mal bought right in

wow 84 accounts

such influence
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I'm pretty sure every kink on earth has 100 times that

foreveraIone posted...

wow 84 accounts

such influence

you know this is just a part of many other social media disruptions by the trollfarm, do you? Please look up on the Internet Research Agency

Mackorov posted...

foreveraIone posted...

wow 84 accounts

such influence

you know this is just a part of many other social media disruptions by the trollfarm, do you? Please look up on the Internet Research Agency

I know what it is.

And I am not convinced that it's really a problem.
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Mackorov posted...

The trolls were reported to be using Tumblr to push anti-Clinton messages, including by actively promoting Democrat rival Bernie Sanders.

lmao bringing IT WAS THE RUSSIANS to a new level
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Russians shit posting on Tumblr is somehow different from all of the other shit posting on there?
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