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Propaganda-spewing Russian trolls act differently online from regular people

  • Written by Savvas Zannettou, Ph.D. Student in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering and Informatics, Technological University of Cyprus
They may look similar, but online trolls act differently.Daren Woodward/Shutterstock.com

As information warfare becomes more common, agents of various governments are manipulating social media – and therefore people’s thinking, political actions and democracy. Regular people need to know a lot more about what information warriors are...

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