A new report finds that a Russian disinformation campaign has, for 6 years, been flooding the internet with false stories in seven languages and across 300 social media platforms. The campaign also shared fake tweets from U.S. elected officials.
Nimmo said one thing stands out about the Secondary Infektion campaign: It almost never worked.
"Which is an important reminder: Yes, there is disinformation on the Internet, but just because it's false, doesn't mean it's going to go viral," Nimmo said.of leaked trade documents between the U.S. and Britain and the disclosure dominated the U.K. news cycle for days, yet Nimmo says that is the only example of the disinformation campaign ever gaining any traction.
"We've never seen a operation that used burner accounts so consistently," Nimmo said."That means for the operation, it was always going to be hard to build an audience."
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