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convince their opponents, but to provoke, humiliate and insult them. Other strategies used in social media include representing oneself as a refugee or to pretend publicly that there is no longer a war in Syria. During one day in
September 2017 seven of the hashtags defined by RG reached the top 20 trending hashtags in Germany.
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cites 5 000 users on the RG Discord channel. They have been instructed to create as many
Twitter accounts as possible and to re-tweet as much as possible the material on the RG Discord channel. Thus the impression of RG representing a majority point of view may be created. The goal is not so much to
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The self-proclaimed "Commander-in-Chief" of RG, who uses the code name "Nikolai
Alexander", has acknowledged close connections with Russia, and stated the group would not have been possible in its actual form without Russian assistance.
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The RG vets potential members carefully through several layers of interviews and social media background checks to weed out spies, however the organization was infiltrated by the NGO
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application, which was set up to disrupt the German election of 2017. The group has over 5000 users. The goal of the group is to ‘ensure the strongest possible showing for the
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275:"Wahlkampf im Netz AfD-Funktionär an Troll-Attacken beteiligt"
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