The Kiev Regime’s Enormous Army…of Bots and Trolls

New Western Research Shows Extent of Kiev's/West's Enormous Infowar Efforts Online

The Kiev Regime’s Enormous Army…of Bots and Trolls

It has long been acknowledged that the information war is a major battlefield space and component of the ongoing conflict in Ukraine.
One needs only to dip their toes into social media on the subject to be assailed and harassed by a horde of trolls and bots with the ubiquitous blue and yellow flags in profiles or NAFO’s (or the North Atlantic Fella’s Organization) puerile Reddit-style meme avatars of militarily dressed shiba inu’s.

NAFO’s coordinated style of swarming reporting attacks to try to get censored & suspended anyone disagreeing with Western narratives over the conflict on Ukraine obviously have the green light and support of Twitter and they have been lauded by the Kiev Regime’s Ministry of Defense and the cyber warfare unit of the U.S. Army, the 780th Military Intelligence Brigade , as well as extolled in the pages of the Washington Post, Politico, the and Newsweek as “OUR GOOD trolls”.  

Ivana Stradner, a national security adviser to the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, an infamous neocon think tank , said that, ““I see myself as a NAFO civilian propagandist,” the troll army’s ranks also includes such political figures as U.S. Congressman Adam Kinzinger, former Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves and Ukraine’s Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov.
According to Politico, and I quote, “The coordinated shit-posting is ultimately deployed in the service of Kyiv’s war effort.”

Now some landmark academic research from Adelaide University in Australia has pulled back the curtain revealing the ugly truth of this war effort.

[Link to Research]

The paper is titled is “#IStandWithPutin versus #IStandWithUkraine: The interaction of bots and humans in discussion of the Russia/Ukraine war”.
Using advanced “bot-identifying” software, university researchers studied 5.2 million posts on Twitter between February and March this year to understand how bot activity may influence online discussions around the Russia-Ukraine conflict and how bots may influence human emotions.

It revealed that between 60 to 80% of the posts about the Ukraine war on Twitter were shared by fake accounts. And a whopping 90% of those posts were pro-Ukraine, with less than 7% being pro-Russian.

In particular, these accounts pushed the hashtags #IStandWithUkraine, #IStandWithZelenskyy, and #ISupportUkraine, and myths like the fictional ‘Ghost of Kiev’. Significant spikes in activity were recorded at key points in the fighting.

The study would tend to suggest that much of Western MSM self-censorship and retractions under pressure of anything published critical of US-backed Kiev regime is in fact directly attributable to harassment and attacks from such automated bot accounts.

These bot and troll attacks seem focused on psychological warfare aspects of sewing political distrust and unrest as well as lowering societal and troop morale in the opponent country, but the research also suggest that they may also be having a more substantial real-world impact in the conflict and spurring people in Ukraine and Russia into fleeing the conflict zone as refugees.

The paper concludes, “In the past, wars have been primarily fought physically, with armies, air force and navy operations being the primary forms of combat.
However, social media has created a new environment where public opinion can be manipulated at a very large scale."
Meaning that YOU are the target of the Kiev regime’s enormous bot army offensive.