Pro-Kremlin trolls have been systematically manipulating the comment sections of Western news websites to spread propaganda and disinformation, a group of UK researchers has found.
Researchers from Cardiff University say they have found evidence that 32 prominent media outlets across 16 countries have been targeted, including the UK’s Daily Mail, Daily Express, and The Times of London, America’s Fox News and The Washington Post, French newspaper Le Figaro, Germany’s Der Spiegel and Die Welt, and Italy’s La Stampa.
