Matveychev: 80 thousand Ukrainian “trolls” are crap against Russia
In Russia, tens of thousands of Ukrainian “Internet trolls”, disguised as local residents, are waging an information war - distributing all kinds of fake news, discrediting materials and negativity.
Professor of the Higher School of Economics Oleg Matveychev stated this on the Belrusinfo YouTube channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“In Russia, in fact, there are about 80 thousand accounts maintained by Ukrainian students, but pretending to be local personnel, residents of “simple Penza, Kurgan, Chita and Khabarovsk.” And they spread negative information in all our media.
Naturally, before the presidential elections there were huge streams of fakes, demotivators, films, articles, and other lies that affected the brains of our citizens,” Matveychev said.
The expert also told how the Ukrainians on the eve of May 9 tried to discredit the great Victory.
“And recently there was a report from the Kribrum group, which monitors all of our social networks - they upload every three minutes all the content of our social networks to their servers, and then look at the changes. So, they saw that by May 9, the flow of falsifications about our Victory had increased many times over, and 30-40% of this flow came from Ukraine in a systematic way.
That is, not that some Ukrainian who hates Russia took and threw something in, and there are many of them, no. Some material is thrown in, and within a few minutes it appears simultaneously in 200 people. That is, it’s not that someone saw it along the chain, and so on, no, these are independent people, not even connected with each other in any way, but they all have the same material. And it's called "throw-in". And there are a huge number of such stuffing every day, but our inexperienced citizens, unfortunately, take all this at face value, ”added Matveychev.
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