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by tablespoon 1529 days ago
> So, how is this different compared to a slap by one famous person that got reposted thousand times?

Intent and strategy:

> By constructing a timeline of the IRA messages, they found left-leaning IRA trolls posted large volumes of entertainment content in their artificial liberal community and shifted away from political content late in the campaign. Simultaneously, conservative trolls were targeting their community with increases in political content. The effort would have encouraged the right to vote and the left to ignore politics.