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Monday, 19 November 2018

Russian Twitter trolls stoking anti-Islamic sentiment in Australia, experts warn

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.

Related: Vast archive of tweets reveals work of trolls backed by Russia and Iran

Related: Pamela Anderson accuses 'smutty' Scott Morrison of abandoning Assange

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