A Russian troll factory is now also painting Finnish targets. In an update to its Telegram site, the troll factory publishes the tweets of Finnish media editors and invites you to forward messages to them.
They quote Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mariya Zakharova, who claims that interviews with Russian representatives are banned in the Western media.
This is not true.
Invoking this claim, editors are asked “how long [the media] intend to hide the truth about the crimes committed by the Kiev government”.
A total of four Finnish media are mentioned. In addition to Yle, the newspapers Keskisuomalainen and Etelä-Saimaa, and the easy-to-read Finnish-language information provider Selkokeskus were also mentioned.
They link to the addresses of Yle’s Chairman of the Supervisory Board Arto Satonen and CEO Merja Ylä-Anttila sometilien.
The Finnish media is now reportedly being targeted by Russia for the first time. Finland is second on the list after the United States. The American media also highlights the some accounts of the editors-in-chief of major newspapers and TV channels.
Other countries that made the list include Germany, Poland, Italy and France.
Since the beginning of the attack, Russia has launched an even more aggressive trolling campaign under the war-related “Cyber front Z”. Social media influencers targeting Western countries – so-called troll factories – have been operating in Russia for years.
The editor of the St Petersburg-based Fontanka website infiltrated the “Kyber front Z” troll factory.
According to the UK’s Guardian, the St Petersburg-based troll factory has been trying to fill the tattoos of Western leaders with its messages. Yevgeny Prigozhin is suspected to be behind the operation, which was set up by the Internet Research Agency to allegedly interfere in the 2016 US presidential election in favour of Donald Trump.
Since the start of the Russian attack, ordinary Russian internet users have also been recruited for trolling operations, including painting.
The aim of the painting is to fill up the targets’ lollipop boxes. Russian troll factories have been posting receipts for the completion of given painting tasks on their websites.
As Russia has blocked access to most western web platforms, the trolls are also forced to use a cumbersome VPN connection. The same method has been forced upon those in Russia who seek access to media out of the Kremlin’s reach.
In addition to the sway of the media, “Cyber front Z” also organizes events for its activists. One of them was aimed at drawing attention to “crimes committed by Kiev”
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A Russian troll factory is now also painting Finnish targets. In an update to its Telegram site, the troll factory publishes the tweets of Finnish media editors and invites you to forward messages to them.
They quote Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mariya Zakharova, who claims that interviews with Russian representatives are banned in the Western media.
This is not true.
Invoking this claim, editors are asked “how long [the media] intend to hide the truth about the crimes committed by the Kiev government”.
A total of four Finnish media are mentioned. In addition to Yle, the newspapers Keskisuomalainen and Etelä-Saimaa, and the easy-to-read Finnish-language information provider Selkokeskus were also mentioned.
They link to the addresses of Yle’s Chairman of the Supervisory Board Arto Satonen and CEO Merja Ylä-Anttila sometilien.
The Finnish media is now reportedly being targeted by Russia for the first time. Finland is second on the list after the United States. The American media also highlights the some accounts of the editors-in-chief of major newspapers and TV channels.
Other countries that made the list include Germany, Poland, Italy and France.
Since the beginning of the attack, Russia has launched an even more aggressive trolling campaign under the war-related “Cyber front Z”. Social media influencers targeting Western countries – so-called troll factories – have been operating in Russia for years.
The editor of the St Petersburg-based Fontanka website infiltrated the “Kyber front Z” troll factory.
According to the UK’s Guardian, the St Petersburg-based troll factory has been trying to fill the tattoos of Western leaders with its messages. Yevgeny Prigozhin is suspected to be behind the operation, which was set up by the Internet Research Agency to allegedly interfere in the 2016 US presidential election in favour of Donald Trump.
Since the start of the Russian attack, ordinary Russian internet users have also been recruited for trolling operations, including painting.
The aim of the painting is to fill up the targets’ lollipop boxes. Russian troll factories have been posting receipts for the completion of given painting tasks on their websites.
As Russia has blocked access to most western web platforms, the trolls are also forced to use a cumbersome VPN connection. The same method has been forced upon those in Russia who seek access to media out of the Kremlin’s reach.
In addition to the sway of the media, “Cyber front Z” also organizes events for its activists. One of them was aimed at drawing attention to “crimes committed by Kiev”
“Cyber front Z” sounds like an anime.