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    1 Sep 2017

    This may be useful, given the number of bot attacks going on right now:

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  2. Jan 17

    Based on its own investigations, Facebook concluded: "Despite their misrepresentations of their identities, we found that these Pages and accounts were linked to employees of Sputnik." The open-source evidence points the same way. / Thread ends.

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  3. Jan 17

    Its Christmas picture was taken from blogger , of .

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  4. Jan 17

    All those pics came from elsewhere online: a Russian Google+ profile, a French hairdressing site, and a Swedish Instagram model.

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  5. Jan 17

    Some of the personal accounts looked pretty fake, too. This one managed a cluster of pages in Georgia. Note the profile pics.

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  6. Jan 17

    There was political content, though, especially in the Baltics, and focused on minority issues and NATO.

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  7. Jan 17

    A lot of the posts were apolitical, and appropriate to the themes the pages claimed. This looked like audience-building, not direct political interference.

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  8. Jan 17

    This page, focused on Kazakhstan, gave Sputnik as its URL.

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  9. Jan 17

    In Latvia, after uncovered this network, asked the head of Sputnik Latvia about the pages, and he confirmed the connection to the Latvia-focused ones.

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  10. Jan 17

    Some of the pages were upfront about their Sputnik connections. This one referenced "my dear colleagues at Sputnik Kazakhstan."

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  11. Jan 17

    Sputnik was the main beneficiary, but TOK, which is also part of the Rossiya Segodnya portfolio, was amplified too.

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  12. Jan 17

    This one, in Estonia, interspersed Sputnik posts with other news sources. But look at the pattern of video sharing.

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  13. Jan 17

    This page, focused on Uzbekistan, was a bit more subtle. It shared Sputnik stories via Google shortener, and added memes. But all it shared was Sputnik.

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  14. Jan 17

    Another Georgian page, about the weather in Abkhazia. This one exclusively shared Sputnik content. No other sources at all in December.

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  15. Jan 17

    Here's a page about fashion in Georgia, paying to promote a Sputnik article.

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  16. Jan 17

    Facebook traced these pages to Sputnik employees. The open-source evidence pointed in that direction too. Look at this page. Uzbekistan presidential fan page, managed from Russia.

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  17. Jan 17

    The pages posed as all kinds of interest groups, from foodies to presidential fans. But they systematically promoted Sputnik content (and sometimes TOK), and cross-posted their videos. Cross-posting is only possible if the source allows it...

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  18. Jan 17

    The network was cross-border, large-scale, and amplified Rossiya Segodnya content - mostly Sputnik, but also the TOK video service. Fake amplification, on an industrial scale. Detailed analysis here:

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  19. Jan 17

    The great found the first part of this network in Latvia. has been looking at the whole network since then. Top takeaways here:

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  20. Jan 17

    BREAKING: Facebook just took down 364 pages and accounts for coordinated inauthentic behaviour in the former USSR. Who was running them? Sputnik employees, that's who.

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  21. Jan 16
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