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Did Russian bots try to sabotage ‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’?

According to researcher Morten Bay, 50.9% percent of negative responses received on Twitter came from non-automated accounts, while only 21.9% was from actual humans.

“The likely objective of these measures is increasing media coverage of the fandom conflict, thereby adding to and further propagating a narrative of widespread discord and dysfunction in American society,” Bay writes. “A number of these users appear to be Russian trolls.”

https://www.nme.com/news/film/did-ru...t-jedi-2385750
The results end up hurting a US company while empowering trolls, one in particular being alt-right comicsgate endorser and prominent comic artist, Ethan Van Sciver, who created "Soy Wars," a satire branding of the Disney Star Wars studio that criticizes the films as being targeted to SJWs.