Well worth a read, albeit a longish one. Requires some arithmetic but has plenty of pretty pictures and colours for the 3 Amigos...Since 2016 we have monitored the activity of "cyber troops",
which we define as government or political party actors tasked
with manipulating public opinion online (Bradshaw & Howard,
2017). Over the past four years, we have examined the formal
organization of cyber troops around the world, and how these
actors use computational propaganda for political purposes.
This has involved building an inventory of the evolving strategies,
tools, and techniques of computational propaganda, such
as the use of "political bots" to amplify hate speech or other
forms of manipulated content, the illegal harvesting of data
or micro-targeting, or deploying armies of "trolls" to suppress
political activism or freedom of the press. We have also tracked
the capacity and resources invested into developing these
techniques to build a picture of cyber troop capabilities around
the world.
https://comprop.oii.ox.ac.uk/wp-content ... NALv.3.pdf