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Here's the user-to-user graph for 13,537 #Portland tweets from Aug 15 to Aug 18 (today). This graph is telling, it's split almost in half. Top quadrants are lefty accounts and the bottom are right wing MAGA accounts. #PDXData 
You can really see the split in the pre-render screen of @Gephi. The only area that seems semi-connected to both disparate halves is this tweet that tagged the Portland Police and the The Oregon Museum of Science with several related hashtags and created that light blue pattern.
The giant purple cluster in the bottom half is notable. I've previously documented MAGA accounts which always tweet at very high volumes (including hundreds of retweets) and some of those accounts are present in the purple cluster.
Here's the user-to-user graph for 13,412 tweets containing the word "Antifa" from the past 48 hrs. @repblumenauer & @tedwheeler are there b/c people are mentioning them in tweets. The network is dominated by right wing influencers. Andy Ngo & Trump are central nodes. #PDXData
Here's the fake antifa account that was created today specifically to troll the protests in Portland.
Since it's a frequent vector of far-right disinfo campaigns, one of the keywords I'm monitoring for the Portland protests is "Antifa"
The "Antifa" Twitter network is currently dominated by right wing influencers; largest node is Trump. hoaxy.iuni.iu.edu/#query=Antifa&… #PDXData
The "Antifa" Twitter network is currently dominated by right wing influencers; largest node is Trump. hoaxy.iuni.iu.edu/#query=Antifa&… #PDXData
Here are some of the main nodes per Hoaxy and the tweets they tweeted. realannapaulina repeated a false claim to her 108K followers from an obviously fake flyer that antifascists are planning to dress up as police and/or MAGA fans. hoaxy.iuni.iu.edu/#query=Antifa&… #PDXData
The large red node, Trump454545, is a MAGA account that averages over 200 tweets per day which is why Hoaxy thinks it's a bot. hoaxy.iuni.iu.edu/#query=Antifa&… #PDXData
