Laure<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://sfba.social/@georgelakoff" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>georgelakoff</span></a></span> 1) I’ve known how networked players work since I stumbled on the Russian <a href="https://federate.social/tags/troll" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>troll</span></a> farm in 2014. I was following events in <a href="https://federate.social/tags/Ukraine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ukraine</span></a> (<a href="https://federate.social/tags/Maidan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Maidan</span></a>, the fleeing of the Pres, the new <a href="https://federate.social/tags/democratic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>democratic</span></a> elections). I used a list of relevant keywords, plugged them into <a href="https://federate.social/tags/tweetdeck" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tweetdeck</span></a>. After my day was done in <a href="https://federate.social/tags/SiliconValley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SiliconValley</span></a>, I’d browse. When workers arrived to the office in St Petersburg, I saw 100s of the same tweet come from 100s of <a href="https://federate.social/tags/sockpuppet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sockpuppet</span></a> accounts simultaneously, flooding <a href="https://federate.social/tags/Twitter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Twitter</span></a>.</p>