The verifications mean their tweets, mostly opposing U.S. aid to Ukraine, are given added prominence.
in December that “Modern Ukraine has had a strange obsession with Nazism.” That echoes one of President Vladimir Putin’s primary justifications for the invasion., posts videos of comments from the Russian leader with English captions and links to full speeches., which was around for over a decade before getting a blue check.
Runews got a blue check in mid-January. On Feb. 6, Musk boosted the account’s profile by responding to its claim that 157,000 Ukrainian soldiers and 2,458 NATO soldiers have died in the war with theAnother Musk reply to the same account made it appear in the “For You” display of a Post test account that did not follow Runews.to Ukraine, though Russia has characterized Ukraine as a puppet of the U.S.-European alliance.
Troll accounts are still being suspended, according to a researcher who supports imprisoned Putin critic Alexei Navalny and tweets asThe researcher, who lives in Russia and agreed to speak on the condition of anonymity to protect his safety, told The Post that through September he’d never counted more than 500 Russian-allied accounts simultaneously active on Twitter, but that lately he has been...
In addition to human-powered troll accounts, automated accounts have been pushing pro-Russian disinformation, according to longtime researcher Marc Owen Jones, a professor at Hamad Bin Khalifa University in Qatar.
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