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Russian Twitter Trolls’ Main Tactic in U.K. Is to Sow Division Over Islam, Study Says

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  • Analysis of 9 million tweets shows Islam outweighed Brexit
  • Sleeper bots initially ‘camouflaged’ as fitness accounts

Dividing U.K. Twitter users over Islam is the primary tactic of Russian trolls, a research group said, based on analysis of 9 million tweets.

Figures released Thursday by the cross-party U.K. Demos think tank showed a St. Petersburg troll factory generated far more tweets about Islam than about Brexit, despite initial public concern over foreign interference in the 2016 referendum on leaving the European Union.