Twitter said it had also suspended five accounts as part of the operation which it could "reliably attribute to Russian state actors." Only 14,000 people followed one or more of the suspended accounts, he said. Peace Data's website lists 22 "contributors", mostly freelance journalists in the United States and Britain. Facebook and Graphika said there was no indication the writers knew who was behind the website. Ben Nimmo, head of investigations at Graphika, said co-opting real people made it easier for political influence operations to remain undetected.

Source: bd News24 September 01, 2020 21:22 UTC