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After four years of warnings and preparations, the 2020 presidential election was not accompanied by a repeat of the Russian attacks and meddling acts that were dictated by US intelligence services during the 2016 election. But according to current and former intelligence officials, as well as independent analysts, there have been plenty of other troubling developments. The Russians, they warn, have been active with operations for future plans. Instead of relying on anonymous operators or fabricated social media accounts to influence American public opinion, they warn that Kremlin agents have penetrated and are now part of the American social media ecosystem, becoming present as voices of of the extreme left, or of the extreme right.
Many of these campaigns have Cambodia WhatsApp Number Data millions of followers," Evanna Hu, CEO of Omelas, told VOA. "They are quite good at inducing negative or positive feelings in their followers, simply with their posts." Read also: The USA and the EU call for the completion of the selection process of the Chief Prosecutor in Kosovo The Israel-Hamas war/ The US military drops aid into Gaza from the air Omelas is a firm in Washington that tracks extremism online for the benefit of private companies working on defense projects. This firm has been carefully monitoring Russian material posted on 11 social media platforms and hundreds of broadcasts from Russia in several languages.
The company collected 1.2 million posts in a three-month period before the Nov. 3 election. The Omelas firm found that the most active Russian channels included state-backed media groups such as RT (Russia Today), Sputnik, TASS and Izvestia TV. "We only see active exchanges, so when you physically click on a post, you see what's being said," Ms Hu says, adding that the figure for millions of posts is an "initial estimate". The firm Omelas has also calculated that only 20% of the posts coming out of Russian propaganda organs are in English. 40% of the posts are in Russian, the rest in Spanish, Arabic, Turkish and some other languages.
Many of these campaigns have Cambodia WhatsApp Number Data millions of followers," Evanna Hu, CEO of Omelas, told VOA. "They are quite good at inducing negative or positive feelings in their followers, simply with their posts." Read also: The USA and the EU call for the completion of the selection process of the Chief Prosecutor in Kosovo The Israel-Hamas war/ The US military drops aid into Gaza from the air Omelas is a firm in Washington that tracks extremism online for the benefit of private companies working on defense projects. This firm has been carefully monitoring Russian material posted on 11 social media platforms and hundreds of broadcasts from Russia in several languages.
The company collected 1.2 million posts in a three-month period before the Nov. 3 election. The Omelas firm found that the most active Russian channels included state-backed media groups such as RT (Russia Today), Sputnik, TASS and Izvestia TV. "We only see active exchanges, so when you physically click on a post, you see what's being said," Ms Hu says, adding that the figure for millions of posts is an "initial estimate". The firm Omelas has also calculated that only 20% of the posts coming out of Russian propaganda organs are in English. 40% of the posts are in Russian, the rest in Spanish, Arabic, Turkish and some other languages.