Are Russian Trolls Saving Measles From Extinction?

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Radio Free Europe

https://www.rferl.org/amp/are-russian-trolls-saving-measles-from-extinction/29768471.html?__twitter_impression=true

Ron Synovitz

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Scientific researchers say Russian social-media trolls who spread discord before the 2016 U.S. presidential election may also have played an unintended role in a developing global health crisis.

They say the trolls may have contributed to the 2018 outbreak of measles in Europe that killed 72 people and infected more than 82,000 -- mostly in Eastern and Southeastern European countries known to have been targeted by Russia-based disinformation campaigns.

Experts in the United States and Europe are now working on ways to gauge the impact that Russian troll and bot campaigns have had on the spread of the disease by distributing medical misinformation and raising public doubts about vaccinations.

Studies have already documented how cybercampaigns by the Internet Research Agency -- a St. Petersburg "troll farm" that has been accused of meddling in the U.S. 2016 presidential election -- artificially bolstered debate on social media about vaccines since 2014 in a way that eroded public trust in vaccinations.


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[Ilsa]

1. It wouldn't surprise me if infected russians were travelling

to spread the disease.

[applegrove]

2. They are targeting anti-vaccine people as vulnerable to being conned

and joining them in their rants and growing the unbelief. Then they salt in narratives that destroy democracy. Kind of like how the Nigerian Prince money scheme don't change their speel because if they find some westerners who has not heard of them they know they have hit gold in finding uninformed targets who will be extra vulnerable.

[ck4829]

3. Biowarfare.