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Figures suggest that the Twitter following of Russia's RT and Sputnik is "unusually dedicated, and unusually active".

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Russia, the far right, and anti-Macron bots

Thousand of automated social network accounts are being used to spread fake news attacking centrist candidate Emmanuel Macron ahead of the French presidential run-off on Sunday (7 May).

Fake news often originating on Russian news outlets such as RT and Sputnik has for weeks targeted Macron, who is opposed to Russia-backed far-right candidate Marine Le Pen.

Ben Nimmo, a researcher who investigated all posts mentioning or retweeting RT France and Sputnik France, found that some of ...

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Figures suggest that the Twitter following of Russia's RT and Sputnik is "unusually dedicated, and unusually active".

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