On Friday, those of us who share factual information about the situation on the ground in Ukraine noticed an eerie silence had befallen Twitter: Why weren’t we being harassed by the Kremlin’s troll army? The insults from anonymous paid bots was as constant as Putin’s public appearances. So when both disappeared at around the same time we wondered whether the silence of the troll factories was another indication of a slow-motion coup in progress.
Below is a call I put out on Facebook Friday which received a lot of responses from journalists and activists; here’s a similar conversation on Twitter. …read more
Source: The Huffington Post
