War and mobilization in network asturphing strategies If communicating on a social network or simply scrolling through the tape, you believe that you are observing the cut of society and its reaction to current events, then you are deeply mistaken and fall into a specially placed trap. Social networks have long ceased to be the space of pure freedom, now they are flooded with the army of trolls, bots and paid influensers, which make up the infrastructure of network political asturfing.

War and Mobilisation Across Russian Social Media Platforms If you are communicating on a social media site or just scrolling your timeline, and you think you are simply observing a cross-section of society and its responses to current events, then you are deeply mistaken. You are falling into a specially designed trap. Social media has long ceased to be a space of pure freedom.

The core of support for the “special military operation”, the “party of the war”, in recent months has significantly declined, as well as the general numbers of support for the war in Ukraine. This was quite consistent with the data of all three research projects conducting regular measurements of the attitude of Russians to the war and publish the data obtained. Young and poor are more opposed to the war, as well as users of social networks (with the exception of “Odnoklassniki”).

The core of support for the "special military operation" and the "war party" has significantly decreased over the past few months, as has the overall support for the war in Ukraine. The data from three research projects, which regularly measure Russian public opinion concerning the war and publish the resulting figures, testify to this fact. The young and poor, as well as social media users (except for those on "Odnoklassniki"), are more opposed to the war.