The Chinese company TikTok has blocked the largest network of Russian bots since the beginning of full-scale Russian aggression in Ukraine, which were used to propagate Europeans. Bloomberg writes about this, citing a report from an EU company..

The report says that the bots created in Russia disguised themselves as European users and published content on the topic of the war in Ukraine in German, English and Italian - for this they used special language synthesis programs.. The publications promoted a pro-Russian position. The network operated in Russia, but was aimed primarily at residents of Germany, Italy and the UK.

In total, the company blocked 1686 such accounts.. The propaganda network operated from July to September 2022. These accounts had over 133k followers.

In addition, TikTok restricted access to 18 accounts from Georgia that pretended to be news agencies and disseminated information in support of the war in Ukraine.. Accounts targeted Russian-speaking audiences in Kazakhstan, Belarus and Ukraine.

European officials asked TikTok and other social media platforms to provide voluntary reports on their practices to overcome disinformation by the end of January. These reports, provided for by the new rules, were first published on Thursday. Large companies will publish them every six months.

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As reported, at the beginning of the year, law enforcement officers in Ukraine exposed a resident of Ternopil, who organized a bot farm using 30,000 SIM cards that spread Russian narratives..

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