Russian online trolls are now targeting TikTok, Twitter, Facebook, and other social media giants based on the latest report of the U.K. government-funded cybersecurity experts. 
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"UK-funded expert research has exposed how the Kremlin is using a troll factory to spread lies on social media and in comment sections of popular websites," said the U.K. government via its official press release.
Involved experts, who the United Kingdom government funded, claimed that the trolls are spreading misinformation in the U.K., India, as well as South Africa.
Russian Online Trolls Target SocMeds
According to Business Insider's latest report, Twitter, Facebook, and TikTok are among the alleged Russian-linked troll farm targets.
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U.K. officials claimed that the online trolls are also connected to Yevgeniy Prigozhin, the founder of the Internet Research Agency (IRA), who the United States sanctioned.
On the other hand, the latest report of the United Kingdom government also believes that Russia has been involved in various disinformation campaigns.
Officials added that the country is doing this to manipulate Russian citizens during the Russia-Ukraine conflict. Because of this, the Russian-liked online trolls were called "cyber soldiers."
In the latest report of the U.K. government, it was stated that the online trolls are actively commenting on various posts on Facebook, Twitter, TikTok, as well as YouTube.
As of writing, Meta and TikTok haven't confirmed if they are already making efforts to prevent the disinformation campaigns of the newly identified Russian cyber soldiers.
Twitter is the Only One Making Effort
While Facebook, TikTok, and YouTube haven't confirmed if there already have anti-disinformation efforts against the Russian troll farm, Twitter confirmed that it is already trying to ease the rising misinformation on its platform.
A Twitter spokesperson confirmed that they had already removed more than 100,000 accounts connected to Russia-Ukraine disinformation ever since the conflict began.
If you want to see more about Twitter's anti-disinformation effort, you can visit this link.
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On the other hand, Elon Musk's Twitter chart recently showed that he wants political neutrality.
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