A suspected Russian troll network has emerged with all the telltale signs of the Wagner chief’s propaganda minions, experts told The Daily Beast.
One account in the network that still remains online—a user that goes by the name “Gleb”—spewed out over a dozen insults and pro-Moscow commentary on Twitter in just over 10 minutes on Thursday., was sentenced in absentia for criticizing Russia’s war in Ukraine, adding: “Katz, you are a criminal, we are waiting for you in Russia, you will be met right at the door of the plane as an honored guest.”
The Maria account also posts praise for Putin and commentary about geopolitics that aligns with Russia’s world view, complaining about the West’s focus on a unipolar world. The network’s pro-Putin leanings align with a switch Linvill had seen in Russian troll networks earlier this year. Linvill said that just after Prigozhin’s revolt, when it appeared Moscow began to absorb some of Prigozhin’s media assets, the trolls switched from supporting Prigozhin to propping up Putin.
“Frankly, propaganda is more important to Putin now than it’s ever been. He’d be a fool to dismantle the apparatus that has helped keep him in place,” Linvill said.The rapid succession of pro-Russia posts on the same topics suggests that the troll network is handed a list of topics to post about—including specific guidance on what narrative spin to use, Roman Osadchuk, an Atlantic Council digital research associate focused on Eurasia in Kyiv, told The Daily Beast.
There is likely “an algorithm that has different writings of specific names, different variants, and then it plays with whether this name is being already used on the platform or not and changes it and tries different combinations,” Osadchuk said.
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