Journalist Laura Walters is shrugging off her encounter with Russian trolls. “It’s a funny dinner party story.”A Kiwi freelance journalist was unknowingly caught up in a Russian misinformation campaign disguised as a global news organisation. Facebook launched an investigation and uncovered a collection of 13 accounts and two pages linked to the Russian Internet Research Agency (IRA). Articles published to the website focus on politics in the US and UK, social justice issues, systemic racism and Covid-19. Moreover, we were called the Russian Trolls,” a post from the “Peace Data Team” read.

Source: Stuff September 04, 2020 09:12 UTC