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Irony alert: Firm that warned Americans of Russian bots...was running an army of fake Russian bots

Ryan, Danielle
http://www.rt.com/op-ed/447630-russian-bots-new-knowledge/

Publisher:  RT
Date Written:  29/12/2018
Year Published:  2018  
Resource Type:  Article

The co-founders of cybersecurity firm New Knowledge warned Americans in November to "remain vigilant" in the face of "Russian efforts" to meddle in US elections. This month, they have been exposed for doing just that themselves.

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This week, however, we learned that New Knowledge was running its own disinformation campaign (or "propaganda war against Americans," you could say), complete with fake Russian bots designed to discredit Republican candidate Roy Moore as a Russia-preferred candidate when he was running for the US senate in Alabama in 2017.

The scheme was exposed by the New York Times - the paper that just over a month earlier published that aforementioned oped, in which Fox and Morgan pontificated about Russian interference online.

New Knowledge created a mini-army of fake Russian bots and fake Facebook groups. The accounts, which had Russian names, were made to follow Moore. An internal company memo boasted that New Knowledge had "orchestrated an elaborate 'false flag' operation that planted the idea that the Moore campaign was amplified on social media by a Russian botnet."

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