The Kremlin’s Trolls Go West

By 2014, Kremlin troll methods were moving from domestic manipulation to Western audiences. Coordinated online influence was already becoming an external campaign, not just an internal propaganda tool.

Continue on site

• Home
• Biography
• Selected Work
• Selected section: Information War
• Interviews
• Published posts index
• Full archive
• Research archive
• Archive
• Search
• Contact

Available languages

• EN

Related topic

• Maximum Retweet: The war we overlooked — Vedomosti • 2014-05-07

Related section

• Warning! An Army of Russian Trolls Has Invaded TikTok — The Moscow Times • 2020-12-18
• Anonymous Telegram Channels Are Shaping Russia's Daily Life — The Moscow Times • 2020-09-28
• From Kremlin Web Brigades to Russian Troll Factories — VSquare • 2017-12-28
• Do Revolutions Grow Out of Social Media? — Carnegie Endowment • 2015-10-22

From this source

• Putin-Macron talks and the Russia expertise gap — The Moscow Times • 2022-02-14
• Mass protests: lessons from a decade — The Moscow Times • 2021-12-10
• The Kremlin Is Coming for Media One by One — and Society Is Helpless to Stop It — The Moscow Times • 2021-08-24
• The Magic Mirror of Russian Public Opinion — The Moscow Times • 2021-07-12

Same period

• TV Rain launched "Our Soldiers" civilian investigation — TV Rain • 2014-08-27
• Wikipedia war-coverage overview references Klishin claims — Wikipedia • 2014-08-01
• Likes Go West — Vedomosti • 2014-05-21
• Maximum Retweet: They purged the wrong people — Vedomosti • 2014-04-09

Timeline in this language

• Newer: Likes Go West — Vedomosti • 2014-05-21
• Older: Maximum Retweet: The war we overlooked — Vedomosti • 2014-05-07

Timeline from this source

• Newer: Why Russian Journalists Find Refuge in Propaganda Outlets — The Moscow Times • 2019-04-05

Recent in this language

• Dekoder on Sputnik V approval and Russian vaccine messaging — Dekoder • 2021-04-01
• Bloomberg quotes Klishin on Russia’s Twitter crackdown — Bloomberg • 2021-03-10
• The Capitol Storming Gives Russians an Escape From Their Reality — The Moscow Times • 2021-01-14
• Why Russians Dislike "Good Russians" in American Films No Less than "Bad Russians" — The Moscow Times • 2020-11-20

More from this archive

• Dekoder zu Sputnik V, EU-Zulassung und russischer Impfkommunikation — Dekoder • 2021-04-01
• Dekoder sobre Sputnik V, la UE y la narrativa rusa de vacunación — Dekoder • 2021-04-01
• Dekoder sur Sputnik V, l’UE et la communication vaccinale russe — Dekoder • 2021-04-01
• Bloomberg zitiert Klishin zur Twitter-Drosselung in Russland — Bloomberg • 2021-03-10