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At least 65,000 tweets were sent in the first two days after the shoordown of
Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 in July 2014, blaming Ukraine.
 
Initially it was reported that 1400 Russian Twitter messages were involved.
They were sent by employees of a troll factory in St. Petersburg.
 
According to a weekly, the tweets are largely Russian and offer insight into
an information center that is as centrally coordinated as it is short-lived.
From an office building in a suburb of St. Petersburg, hundreds of employees
get involved in online discussions day in, day out. It is their job to drive
conversations and to sow discord.
 
During this large-scale disinformation campaign, Russian trolls had to
convince the world that Ukraine shot the MH17 airplane as a provocation. All
298 passengers were killed by the shooting of the Boeing 777 of Malaysia
Airlines and originating in Amsterdam.

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