Governments deploy ‘cyber troops’ for social media manipulation – study

‘Governments are using so called ‘cyber troops’ to manipulate public opinion on social media, according to a study from the University of Oxford.
Researchers say the extent to which some governments use these techniques may surprise the public.
The practice is a sweeping global phenomenon used in both authoritarian regimes and western democracies, according to researchers at the Computational Propaganda Project, who have been investigating the issue since 2012.
A newly published paper from the project entitled ‘Troops, Trolls and Troublemakers : A Global Inventory of Organized Social Media Manipulation’ examines the practice across 28 countries including the United Kingdom, the United States, Germany, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey and Venezuela.’
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