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“The tactics are exactly what we’ve come to expect from these actors since 2016. They use fake personas to imitate, infiltrate, and attempt to influence a specific online community,” Tyler Williams, director of investigations at Graphika, tells. “These personas then coordinate across multiple platforms to amplify division and exacerbate existing tensions.
“This operation doesn’t appear to have evolved much beyond efforts we exposed by the same actors in 2020 and 2021. In terms of influence or impact, they mostly scream into an echo chamber on the fringes of the online conversation, with sporadic moments of ‘breakout.’ Despite public claims to the contrary by the actors themselves, we consistently see them struggle to achieve sustainable reach,” Williams added.
. In an email, Gab founder Andrew Torba said that his company prohibits illegal content and cited a Nov. 30 post in which he claimed to have removed an unspecified “foreign state actor botnet operating on Gab.” “If we had received notification from law enforcement that the account you mentioned was involved in illegal activity we would have investigated and taken action,” Torba wrote. “We do not care what Graphika has to say on the matter.”
Jason Miller, Gettr’s CEO, said in a statement that the company “takes a robust and proactive approach to moderation, and removed all Russia Today accounts earlier this year for violating [its] Terms of Service. Our platform always complies with local law-enforcement authorities and has been repeatedly praised for its approach to moderation by third-parties such as Bot Sentinel CEO Cristopher Bouzy.
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