August 19 to August 22, 2022
- Most mentioned user among monitored accounts
- Most mentioned countries
- Output by Russian state-affiliated outlet
- Pro-Kremlin Tweets
- Many popular tweets made false comparisons, deflected
- Redfish, an RT subsidiary, boosting content to portray US as hypocritical
- Renegade, another RT subsidiary, boosted Dutch farmer conspiracy theories
- Russian state affiliate boosts far-right US candidate’s tweet
- There’s a conspiracy theory in the car bomb someplace: Darya Dugina
- Diplomatic and state-controlled media promoted the chemical-weapons claims again
- Tweets about Ukraine
Most mentioned user among monitored accounts
Most mentioned countries
Output by Russian state-affiliated outlet
Pro-Kremlin Tweets
Many popular tweets made false comparisons, deflected
One of the most popular tweets regarding retweets and likes references UK involvement via NATO in an airstrike to end years-long genocide.
Russian state-affiliated accounts tweeted and retweeted a post attempting to compare Russia’s actions to those of NATO to stop a genocide.
Redfish, an RT subsidiary, boosting content to portray US as hypocritical
Redfish is a subsidiary of RT. The account, similar to other Russian state-affiliated accounts, highlights action taken by the US, a NATO country, in an attempt to deflect from its actions in Ukraine. Popular examples are included below.
Ukraine received the same treatment as the US, with a long-time Kremlin propagandist using Amnesty International’s report to claim Ukraine is breaking international law
Renegade, another RT subsidiary, boosted Dutch farmer conspiracy theories
Russian state affiliate boosts far-right US candidate’s tweet
A Russian state-affiliated account amplified the far-right candidate Kari Lake. According to AP:
“Kari Lake, a former news anchor who walked away from her journalism career and was embraced by Donald Trump and his staunch supporters, won the Republican primary for Arizona governor” on August 5, 2022.