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 w

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.