A new study has found that for every 25,000 retweets that a known Russian troll account received during the 2016 US elections Donald Trump’s poll numbers jumped one percent.
The study was conducted by a team headed at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville who analysed seven hundred and seventy thousand (770,000) tweets from known Russian troll accounts as well as corresponding poll data.
The researchers suggested that despite protests to the contrary by Republicans and Trump allies, the Russian disinformation campaign was successful in influencing the 2016 US elections.