Researchers say Russia-linked accounts are trying to destabilise democracy and erode trust in leaders by amplifying social divisions
Russian Twitter trolls have targeted Australia’s democracy primarily through attempts to stoke anti-Islamic sentiment and have begun to advocate on behalf of Julian Assange, according to experts.
On Tuesday experts from the University of Canberra’s News and Media Research Centre warned a parliamentary inquiry about those trends, drawn from their research of tweets identified by Twitter as belonging to an “organised influence operation” from Russian troll-farm the Internet Research Agency.
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