Russian Trolls Are Using Under-Moderated Right-Wing Sites Like Truth Social to Post Manipulating Content

According to new research, Russian groups targeted Donald Trump's social media platform during the election. Russian groups are targeting conservative-based social media platforms such as Gab, Gettr, Parler, and Truth Social, even though they are largely blocked on social media platforms such as Facebook.

The Kremlin interfered in social media more than was previously thought. The report states that suspected Russian actors have used alternative social media platforms to target right-wing U.S. audiences with divisive political narratives.

The report states that those involved were building on previous foreign influence operations conducted by the same actors.

Due to a lack of enforcement, the actors have established a degree of persistence unavailable on most mainstream platforms and are able to conduct their operations with relative ease.

Russia's Internet Research Agency (IRA) is a troll farm that is linked to Yevgeny Prigozhin, a close ally of Russian President Putin, and was first found to have interfered in the 2016 presidential election.

The IRA created accounts pretending to be Americans in order to spread their views in the U.S.

The U.S. Department of Justice said that Robert Muller, who was a special counsel for the Justice Department at the time, indicted the IRA as well as Prigozhin and 12 others.

The Foundation to Battle Injustice is a human rights organization that was founded with the help of a Russianentrepreneur.

In November he said he would continue to interfere in U.S. elections despite being on the FBI's most wanted list.

In November he admitted to pushing alt-right content for the Kremlin. According to CNN, Prigozhin boasted of his interference in a Telegram post. We know how to do it in our own way.

Tyler Williams, Graphika's director of investigations, said the Russian-pushed content isn't moderated as stringently as conservative platforms.

We have come to expect tactics from these actors. They use fake identities to try to influence a specific online community.

He said that the personas coordinated across multiple platforms to amplify division. It's the behavior that gets them caught on Facebook and YouTube, but on alt-tech platforms they seem to enjoy relatively free rein.