Several accounts wrote on Twitter that “NATO cannot save Finland”.
When Finland aspires to become a member of NATO, pro-Russian troll accounts on social media try to turn public opinion in the direction against NATO.
For example, on Saturday, when the Prime Minister Sanna Marin and the president Sauli Niinistö talked about Russia and Finland’s NATO membership at the Munich Security Conference, a video distorted by artificial intelligence was circulated on Twitter, in which Marin appears to be encouraging Finland to go to war against Russia.
However, several troll accounts on Twitter seem to have fallen into a peculiar mistake. The slogan spread by many accounts says that “NATO cannot save Finland”. This phrase probably refers to the phrase “Nato can’t save Finland”.
The sentence has apparently been translated by internet translation services. The English word “clay” has two different meanings. It can refer to saving something or saving it.
Hybrid center expert Jakub Kalensky has previously said that disinformation attacks by Russia can be expected to increase during the current winter.
What’s new has been not only the larger number of messages than before, but also the more versatile use of different channels.
Trolls seem to use Facebook and Twitter less than before and move to other social media platforms.
However, there is no certainty that these people who wrote about “saving NATO” were actually trolls operating in Russia.
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