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If you are unsure whether or not to trust a Facebook or Twitter message, study its source. The following indicators can help you assess if you are dealing with a fake account, bot or troll.

 Fake accounts, bots and trolls can have damaging impact on public discourseImage: 

 In 2014, The Washington Post ran a story titled "Irony alert: First tweet from Putin account congratulated Obama?" Four years later, Business Insider published a piece about Russian President Putin following only 19 people on Twitter, one of whom has been dead for five years. It turns out that both media outlets were duped by a fake, English-language Twitter account impersonating Russian President Vladimir Putin. They were not the only respected media organizations to make this mistake.

 Set up in November 2012, the fake account had amassed almost a million followers by November 2018, when it was finally suspended by Twitter for impersonating the Russian leader. Confusingly, Putin's official, verified English-language Twitter feed has a similar number of followers.

 The now defunct imposter account mainly retweeted official Kremlin statements, instead of misinformation. This allowed it to go undetected for so long.

 Fake accounts of this kind are increasingly used as tools of information warfare. Fortunately, by now most major social media platforms are aware of this threat

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