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How to Find Russians Anywhere
Pt.1 - PROJECT OSPREY -
After the 2016 election, the Senate Intel Committee asked Twitter to identify accounts from Russia's Internet Research Agency. But both Twitter and 3rd party researchers struggled to find Russian agents.
How to Find Russians Anywhere
Pt.1 - PROJECT OSPREY -
After the 2016 election, the Senate Intel Committee asked Twitter to identify accounts from Russia's Internet Research Agency. But both Twitter and 3rd party researchers struggled to find Russian agents.
2/ At first, Twitter was only able to produce 22 plus 179 IRA "linked" accounts. Democrat Mark Warner called the numbers "inadequate on every level". Twitter went back to the drawing board in an analysis project called "Osprey".
3/ In "Project Osprey," Twitter counted 2 types of Russians.
1. "A Priori" Russians - identified as Russian by outside researchers like QIntel
2. "Inferred" Russians (aka is_russian) - identified by algorithm tracking "signals" like Cyrillic text or a Russian IP address
1. "A Priori" Russians - identified as Russian by outside researchers like QIntel
2. "Inferred" Russians (aka is_russian) - identified by algorithm tracking "signals" like Cyrillic text or a Russian IP address
