Perspective: Russian trolls can be surprisingly subtle, and often fun to read
By Darren Linvill and Patrick Warren March 8 at 12:29 PM On Sept. 10, 2018, @PoliteMelanie tweeted to her more than 20,000 followers: “Criticizing Trump in a book is just unfair. It’s like criticizing the Amish on television.” The next day this tweet won the Chicago Tribune’s “Tweet of the Week” contest . What the Tribune’s readers didn’t know when casting their votes, however, was that “Melanie” was a Russian troll.
[U.S. Cyber Command operation disrupted Internet access of Russian troll factory on day of 2018 midterms] The operators in St. Petersburg are good at their jobs. Tweets from other accounts that were part of the PoliteMelanie network had similar success: We found them cited by The Washington Post, CNN, BuzzFeed, Al Jazeera, the New York Post and Essence magazine, to name a few. One of these accounts, @Blk_Hermione, had a tweet with cross-platform success, gaining more than 40,000 “upvotes” to make the front page of Reddit.
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