Putin’s Twitter bots suspected of promoting Russian sabotage in Europe

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1. European security agencies believe acts of sabotage have been carried out around the continent by Russian intelligence before being amplified by President Vladimir Putin’s army of Twitter bots.

   On the morning of 14 May, about 20 spray-painted red hand symbols were discovered on the wall of a Holocaust memorial in Paris, which is dedicated to honouring individuals who saved Jews from persecution during the Nazi occupation of France.

   Emmanuel Macron condemned the act of “odious antisemitism”. France’s President wrote on X, formerly Twitter, that the vandalism damaged “the memory” of those who saved Jews during the Holocaust

   About a week after the incident, investigators in France said they believed the vandalism was ordered by Russian security services who allegedly recruited two Bulgarian citizens identified by the police as suspects.

   Bot Blocker/Anti-bot for Navalny, an organisation that exposes Russian social media attacks, claimed that on the day of the incident, a swathe of Russian bots took to X to express disgust at the desecration. The fake accounts, posing as ordinary social media users, blamed Mr Macron and his government “for not doing enough to fight antisemitism”

2. Russia is the cancer of Europe. At least Germany got their shit together but for whatever reason, Russia just continues to be the black sheep. Poor countries who have to share borders with those barbaric monsters.

3. Well you don’t say.

4. We need to increase European security. No doubt our leaders are doing a great job.

5. The biggest cancer is social media. As long as the possibility exists to influence a large audience anonymously with little cost and effort there will be bad actors abusing it. If its not russia it will be china (they already do it), the taliban, north korea or other bad actors trying to benefit politically or financially

6. They would never do such thing

   Have you guys heard Czechia won the IIHC recently? Gold medal

7. Difference between suspected and totally predictable ?

8. With all this trolls and bots being on Twitter … why not shut that site down already?

   I mean the data compliance violations alone should be enough to justify that

9. Poor people, someone pooped in their pants again.

10. And putin’s reddit bots promoting hate…

11. Ahut them down