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#TrollTracker 1/: Mike Pompeo's @instagram posts have been relentlessly spammed by accounts posting duplicate anti-American comments ever since he announced the Poland summit on January 11.
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#TrollTracker 2/: Most accounts were rarely ever active before the announcement came, @hall__melissa and @KaranKanishk find. A spurt in activity following the announcement indicates they were part of coordinated effort to counter the summit's anti-Iran narrative. 
#TrollTracker 3/: The team studied one particular post in which Pompeo praised the president's #SOTU speech. Four of the most frequently commenting accounts on the post have profiles extremely similar to each other—indicative of puppet account behavior.
#TrollTracker: interesting troll spike from the pro-Kremlin / pro-Assad gang against @janinedigi.
Image: @Sysomos scan of traffic over the past 7 days.
Image: @Sysomos scan of traffic over the past 7 days.
For those who don't know @janinedigi, here's a list of her awards as a war correspondent.
She reported from places including Grozny, Kosovo, Palestine, Rwanda, Iraq and Afghanistan.
Source: janinedigiovanni.com/awards-and-rec…
She reported from places including Grozny, Kosovo, Palestine, Rwanda, Iraq and Afghanistan.
Source: janinedigiovanni.com/awards-and-rec…
Here's the tweet which triggered the storm: a post saying that RT and Sputnik are not journalists.
That's a hell of a call for a genuine award-winning journalist to make, so let's look at evidence.
That's a hell of a call for a genuine award-winning journalist to make, so let's look at evidence.
#Trolltracker thread: One of the many ugly things about troll attacks is the way they're coordinated across platforms.
Another is the collateral damage they cause.
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Another is the collateral damage they cause.
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Luke O'Brien of Huffington Post exposed the user behind anti-Islam Twitter account AmyMek.
The trolls went for him, big time.
The trolls went for him, big time.
On Twitter, they shared what they thought were his address, phone number, girlfriend's name...
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.
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They're still up, for moderators, researchers and the public to study, so here are some initial #TrollTracker findings.
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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.
