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Russia Helped Shape Italy's Twitter Obsession With Immigrants
Russian efforts to fuel alarm about immigration in Italy had an impact on voters last year, according to an analysis of social-media activity. Russia’s state-controlled news agency Sputnik Italia was the most influential foreign media organization attacking immigration in Italy and among the top 2 percent of all news sources cited in the online debate, Madrid-based Alto Data Analytics found. The company uses software similar to Google’s search algorithm to rank websites by the number and quality of their links.
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