It is a paper from the US military detailing research on how to better run troll farms. It's pretty clear that they are actually running troll farms. Then from the same place that the research was taking place, unusually high traffic into Reddit was found. There is literally no better evidence you will ever get except for Milley coming out and saying "We are running troll farms".
JTRIG operated in alliance with the US at least two time that we know of for Iran and Afghanistan.
Are they running troll farms or are they researching to better understand troll farms? You should always study your enemy. I don't buy it. I love how in every thread, for one reason or another, the evidence doesn't exist or is hidden so I'm expected to just make a leap of faith. No thanks.
They are definitely running troll farms. How else do you explain that the exact base where this research is taking place was, at the time, the place in the US with the highest concentration of Reddit posts?
Also, the research isn't on how to detect troll farms. It's on how to optimize running your own.
It's pretty damn obvious. If you saw from China that their leading social media manipulation research center had unusually high traffic to Facebook, would you conclude that it's a leap of faith? Of course not.
JTRIG operated in alliance with the US at least two time that we know of for Iran and Afghanistan.