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Russian network used Venezuelan accounts to deepen Catalan crisis Madrid 11 NOV 2017
The deep state runs all the way to Madrid.
An analysis of five million messages reveals that RT and Sputnik used social networks to spread a negative image of Spain
Two media outlets linked to the Kremlin, RT and Sputnik, made use of a large number of accounts on social networks related to Venezuela and chavismo in order to propagate a negative image of Spain in the days running up to and after the October 1 referendum on independence in Catalonia. That’s according to a detailed analysis of more than five million messages carried out by George Washington University in the United States. The report warns of the “serious crisis of political and economic reputation in Spain and the EU.”
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To carry out the study, researchers used an advanced software program that makes use of Spanish technology to measure and analyze big data. Its author, Javier Lesaca, is a visiting scholar at the School of Media and Public Affairs at George Washington University. He has analyzed a total of 5,029,877 messages on Twitter, Facebook and other social networks that used the terms Cataluña, Catalunya and Catalonia between September 29 and October 5.
“The most surprising thing about the investigation has been the discovery of an entire army of zombie accounts that are perfectly coordinated and that are dedicated to sharing content generated by RT and Sputnik in diverse digital conversations, which go from Syria and the United States to Catalonia,” Lesaca explains. “There is evidence to suggest that the pattern of digital disruption that has been detected in digital debates about the elections in the United States or Brexit has also been seen in Catalonia, and that the authors of this disruption are the very same.”
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The deep state runs all the way to Madrid.