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Russian diplomatic Twitter accounts rewrite history of World War II

Dmitrii Fortuna Sep 23, 2019 0

Official Twitter accounts amplified the hashtag #TruthAboutWWII in an effort to justify the Soviet Union’s signing of the Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression PactIn recent years, Russia has used its official government Twitter accounts to…

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Figure of the week: 55%

Dmitrii Fortuna Sep 11, 2019 0

Between May and July 2019, bots accounted for a staggering 55% of all Russian-language Twitter messages about the NATO presence in the Baltic States and Poland, a study by the NATO Stratcom Centre of Excellence reveals. This…