Ben Nimmo on the Return of the Internet Research Agency
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This week on Lawfare\'s Arbiters of Truth series on disinformation, Alina Polyakova and Quinta Jurecic spoke with Ben Nimmo, the director of investigations at Graphika. Ben has come on the podcast before to discuss how he researches and identifies information operations, but this time he talked about one specific information operation: a campaign linked to the Internet Research Agency \\u201ctroll farm.\\u201d Yes, that\\u2019s the same Russian organization that Special Counsel Robert Mueller pinpointed as responsible for Russian efforts to interfere in the 2016 election on social media. They\\u2019re still at it, and Graphika has just put out a report on an IRA-linked campaign that amplified content from a fake website designed to look like a left-wing news source. They discussed what Graphika found, how the IRA\\u2019s tactics have changed since 2016 and whether the discovery of the network might represent the rarest of things on the disinformation beat\\u2014a good news story.
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