Small Communities & Russian Trolls
2024-03-01 17:42:29.553197+01 by Dan Lyke 2 comments
That troll on your local group? Did Reddit year-end recaps expose Russian interference in Alberta?
“It appears that we were actually being brigaded by Russian troll farms.”
Along with Sherwood Park, the subreddits for Lethbridge, Medicine Hat, Red Deer, Grande Prairie, and a handful of other small cities throughout Canada also recorded Russia in their top three countries of origin for users last year — results that alarmed both local users and experts on foreign interference.