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I'm in the midst of going through the drawers of an account.
I think this Follower meant to say, 'Coach' but I dunno maybe she's like 'The Human Trampoline' Paul Simon sings about....
'The Human Couch'
I think this Follower meant to say, 'Coach' but I dunno maybe she's like 'The Human Trampoline' Paul Simon sings about....
'The Human Couch'
Beware all those Touchy-Feely-Benign-Looking-and-Designed-to-be-so accounts, my friends.
I've refrained from stating it far too often but many are sucked into a 'Farm' so expect to be 'Fertilized and Harvested'
I've refrained from stating it far too often but many are sucked into a 'Farm' so expect to be 'Fertilized and Harvested'
Right. So many New Age Mommies, Lovers, Artists and Healers living on 'The Farm'
The Birth of a #TrollFarm:
We have shown you how a troll farm works & we have busted a few in our previous reports but today we will show you how these troll farms come into existence. How they are established & tested before being handed over to the actual operators. (1/5)
We have shown you how a troll farm works & we have busted a few in our previous reports but today we will show you how these troll farms come into existence. How they are established & tested before being handed over to the actual operators. (1/5)
Phase 1: Origination
We have a list of 102 accounts, all of these accounts send their 1st reply to an account AnnaAmaury & in Japanese language
Img1: Max follower count is 4, while max status count is 800 rep. by node size
Img2: 58 accounts are created in Jan(2/5)@TwitterSafety
We have a list of 102 accounts, all of these accounts send their 1st reply to an account AnnaAmaury & in Japanese language
Img1: Max follower count is 4, while max status count is 800 rep. by node size
Img2: 58 accounts are created in Jan(2/5)@TwitterSafety
In the origination and testing phase these accounts only reply and that too to a particular account. All of them reply the same thing, giving a hint that these are bot operated. (3/5)
Wow big story I just saw from @donie on a @cnnbrk undercover investigation by @clarissaward & her team revealing a Russian linked troll farm in Ghana Africa. One of the accnts they highlight is @africamustwake. We reported on that & a couple others last wk
Here's our thread from last wk on 4 tightly connected #BLM accnts that we identified a while back & had added to our new alt-left #Hamilton68 set of Kremlin-aligned twitter trolls. Can't believe they turned out 2b Russian outsourced accounts based in Ghana
This is a set of some of the accounts we also found. I guess we will find out soon enough from Twitter as I am assuming they will make this suspended data set available. @AfricaMustWake
@AfricaThen
@TheNewAfrica_
@_Pawa_2_da_ppl_
@s_Racism_
@TonCarthur
@WomensRights___
@AfricaThen
@TheNewAfrica_
@_Pawa_2_da_ppl_
@s_Racism_
@TonCarthur
@WomensRights___
NEW: U.S. Cyber Command operation disrupted Internet access of Russia’s troll factory on day of 2018 midterm election washingtonpost.com/world/national…
US military operation took Russia's troll farm offline on 2018 Election Day & day after to prevent disinformation campaign casting doubt on results. Expert @RidT called Cyber Command's first show of muscle more "annoying pinprick" than longterm deterrence. washingtonpost.com/world/national…
Some US officials argue “grand strategic deterrence” isn't always the goal: “Part of our objective is to throw a little curve ball, inject a little friction, sow confusion.…We showed what’s in the realm of the possible. It’s not the old way of doing business anymore.” #TrollFarm
Thread: Reddit announced that it found and isolated 944 accounts of "suspected Russian Internet Research Agency origin."
They're still up, for moderators, researchers and the public to study, so here are some initial #TrollTracker findings.
medium.com/dfrlab/trolltr…
They're still up, for moderators, researchers and the public to study, so here are some initial #TrollTracker findings.
medium.com/dfrlab/trolltr…
First point: the Reddit operation didn't seem as effective as the equivalents on Twitter, FB etc.
Of the 944 accounts, two-thirds were either inactive or ineffective.
Helpfully, @reddit lists them all here: reddit.com/wiki/suspiciou…
Of the 944 accounts, two-thirds were either inactive or ineffective.
Helpfully, @reddit lists them all here: reddit.com/wiki/suspiciou…
There are some old friends in the mix. Remember @SouthLoneStar? There was a Reddit equivalent, but it only posted once, trying to engage Milo Yiannopoulos via r/the_donald.
‘We disagree with the narrative that they were trying to help Trump.’ This is staggering, given all the evidence. nytimes.com/2018/03/12/us/…
For a summary of the evidence and impact, see here: medium.com/dfrlab/electio…
The Russian operation had multiple goals. Defend Russia, attack Clinton, divide Americans, denigrate US democracy, and support Trump until the election. See the @NBCNews archive of troll factory tweets for 200k examples: nbcnews.com/tech/social-me…
Thread: Interesting sidelight on the #trollfarm's activity. Troll account @WorldnewsPoli tweeted this on November 7, 2016, per @NBCNews archive. Focus on the two shortened URLs.
The second URL leads to a deleted Twitter account. The first one, if you enter it into a search, gets you to this Twitter warning.
Where does that link then lead? To this pay-per-click ads site. #Trollfarm making a bit of cash on the side? (Don't try this at home unless you have a safe browser.)
Thread: Why do we know so much about the Russian #trollfarm? One reason is that Russian journalists are really good at their jobs. @DFRLab medium.com/dfrlab/the-rus…
On August 30, 2013, this post went up on VK, describing an office in Olgino where Russians were paid to post at least 100 times a day, writing blogs and comment, mainly on politics, praising regime allies and attacking Navalny. archive.is/LvJWL
In the next two weeks, @SPB_MR7 and @novaya_gazeta both went into the "lair of trolls," posing as job applicants. They found that the Internet Research Agency was registered on July 26, 2013.
October 10, 2016, was a good day for the Russian #trollfarm. @Crystal1Johnson posted this, and got over 44,000 retweets. (Archive here: )
The #trollfarm post triggered this article by the @dailydot. H/t to them that when @Crystal1Johnson was exposed, they left the story up, for its "historical and educational value." dailydot.com/irl/black-man-…
Thing is, the article was only exposed, by @thinkprogress, in November 2017. The troll farm's fake stood for over a year. thinkprogress.org/social-media-r…
Fascinating to revisit this #trollfarm coup. @TEN_GOP tweeted that Hillary Clinton had an "undercover nurse." Politifact watched the lie spread, including apparently being referenced by Hannity: politifact.com/truth-o-meter/…
The Daily Telegraph picked up on it, too, apparently thinking that @TEN_GOP was a real GOP feed: telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/09/1…
Oh look. Here's the Daily Mail, again attributing to @TEN_GOP. dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3…
#Trollfarm. Posts on August 13, 2015, pushing a coordinated #TrumpBecause campaign. (H/t @NBCNews and @bpopken for the data mine at nbcnews.com/tech/social-me….)
And #trollfarm posts on April 14, 2015, two days after Clinton declared her candidacy. A #HillaryNoThnx campaign. (Note the odd Russia reference.) Again, h/t @NBCNews and @bpopken.
