"Clearly and coordinated": the trolls of Prigogine began to criticize him on the eve

According to the administrator of the Project "Lovushka Boar", Prigogine lost the bot-farm, just when his conflict from the Ministry of Defense exacerbated. It was at that time that the trolls began to work against him. The Internet bot, which previously performed on the side of Yevgeny Prigogine, began criticizing it in May and June. Experts told the Russian media "Agency".

Since the beginning of May of this year, about 13,000 former Prigoginsky bots have stopped working on their creator on the VK network, said the author of the Project "Lovushka the War", which keeps its name in mystery. He added that these bots for the last few years "have apparently worked for Prigogine, but now, apparently, he does not work on him, because clearly and coordinatedly write comments against him.

" The expert explained that from the end of 2019, about 127 thousand bots in VK have been monitoring the activity of "Lovushka Boar". In his field of view, communities are found in which the activity of fake accounts was revealed. "I guess that this structure (bot-farm) was simply taken away from Prigogine. She worked, so now he works, only changed behavior and task," the interlocutor told reporters.

At the same time, according to him, there are now only about 1,300 accounts in the Russian social network, which regularly support the PVC head. By May 2023, there were about 15 thousand, but now they are working against it. The publication notes that the accounts, which praised the Putin's "cook" by early May, began to respond to him negatively. Yes, they stated that Prigogine was creating a "Bardak" and lies about "projectile famine".

The journalists drew attention to the fact that it was from late April - early May that the conflict between Shogu and the head of the PEC sharply aggravated. Then Prigogine accused the Russian Federation of termination of supply. The American specialist in Internet trolls Darren Lineville found that he known to Twitter's bots did not support the Wagner PVC during the uprising.

"The accounts we see on Twitter were very active during the rebellion and passionately criticized Prigogine," he emphasized. The Lineville team monitors the activity of about two hundred bots, which were associated with the created "Troll Factory". Associate Professor of Communications Department of Clemson University in South Carolina Darren Lineville is an internationally recognized expert in the field of forensic and monitoring of data on social networks.

He explores profiles and reports on social networks to identify unreliable behavior produced by troll farms, as well as the dissemination of false information and misinformation designed to persuade the public or public leaders. In 2020, he became a partner of the presidential debate commission to track social networks about debate and help protect the 2020 elections.

He also worked on Twitter and Facebook to block hundreds of accounts on social networks, which they attributed to a number of malefactors, including the Russian "Internet Research Agency". Lineville called his greatest achievement understanding the activities of Russian campaigns on misinformation on social networks.

"We have been able to use the Clemson Social Networking Center to download three million tweets from well -known Russian accounts that are trying to divide the Americans even more by ideological grounds," he wrote. In 2018, the US authorities accused the 2016 US presidential election created by the Internet Research Agency, also called the Troll Factory. At the same time, Washington imposed sanctions on the organization and the businessman himself.

Factory trolls created fake accounts on social networks and wrote comments on their behalf. The report of US Prosecutor Prosecutor Robert Müller said that this organization began to work actively in the country in 2014. Prigogine himself acknowledged his involvement in the creation of a Bot farm only in 2023. It was also known that in addition to the US elections, the Prigogin trolls actively harassed Russian critics of Putin.

For example, they declared the opposition's involvement in the murder of Boris Nemtsov and organized the harassment of Alexei Navalny Lyubov Sobol, journalists write. On the basis of "Troll Factory", businessman created a media imperium - a holding "Patriot", which on June 30 announced the termination of work. We will remind, on July 1 it was reported that in Uganda noticed a Russian military aircraft, which serves the needs of PEC "Wagner".