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00:30But researchers say the profile uses a stolen photograph, rarely publishes its own content and is listed by X as
00:37being based in Benin, West Africa.
00:40According to research from Dutch analysis company Trollver6 and the Nonprofit Alliance for Europe,
00:47it is part of more than 8,500 X accounts that show signs of belonging to a coordinated network.
00:54Their investigation in collaboration with Swedish broadcaster SVT found that many of the accounts presented themselves as local Swedish users
01:03while being listed by X as based in Nigeria, Ghana and parts of Asia.
01:09These accounts published few to no posts themselves.
01:13Instead, they follow large numbers of genuine Swedish political accounts across the political spectrum.
01:18We've also found accounts in Sweden, accounts that were following a lot of Swedish people that started out as Dutch
01:27accounts and were following Dutch people.
01:30And another funny thing was that we found accounts that used a profile picture, which was also used in the
01:36Netherlands before.
01:37The investigation suggests that this behavior could attract attention to these profiles, inflate their popularity or prepare the accounts for
01:46future influence operations.
01:49This suspected network is one of the many potential threats that have emerged around Sweden's election.
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