Long After Protests, Students Shun the University of Missouri

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Well this is interesting.

A new journal article in Strategic Studies Quarterly reveals that the Russian bots had another target in the fall of 2015: students at the University of Missouri at Columbia. The bots created false impressions about some threats against black students and faculty members at the university, which resulted in some campus leaders calling for people to stay home and many students to say that they were terrified. The false reports also contributed to a negative image of the university – particularly with regard to its support for minority students – that the university continues to fight.

http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2018/02/15/journal-article-explains-how-russian-bots-created-fear-university-missouri