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Colin Zwirko
Colin Zwirko is a Senior Analytic Correspondent for NK News based in Seoul. Follow him on Twitter @ColinZwirko.
Propaganda and influence campaigns delivered behind fake sockpuppet identities have been used to great effect by many countries, perhaps most famously in recent times by Russia's "Internet Research Agency" to sway U.S. voters' opinions surrounding the 2016 elections.
Now, North Korean state media's presence on the world wide web appears to be evolving in notable new ways, potentially operating at least one "sockpuppet" social media account.