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BREAKING: @TWITTER just published the full dataset of tweets from the Russian and Iranian troll farms.
9 million Russian tweets. 1 million Iranian tweets. #motherlode
They gave @DFRLab a look ahead of time.
Thread on the findings to follow.
blog.twitter.com/official/en_us…
9 million Russian tweets. 1 million Iranian tweets. #motherlode
They gave @DFRLab a look ahead of time.
Thread on the findings to follow.
blog.twitter.com/official/en_us…
Main takeaways. The troll operations:
- were about the home government first
- had multiple goals
- targeted specific activist communities
- apolitical
- opportunistic
- evolved
- not always high-impact
medium.com/dfrlab/trolltr…
- were about the home government first
- had multiple goals
- targeted specific activist communities
- apolitical
- opportunistic
- evolved
- not always high-impact
medium.com/dfrlab/trolltr…
First point: the troll operations started off as defending the home government.
Timeline on 9 million Russian tweets here.
Russian-language posts outnumbered the English ones, and peaked higher and earlier.
Russians were the first targets.
Timeline on 9 million Russian tweets here.
Russian-language posts outnumbered the English ones, and peaked higher and earlier.
Russians were the first targets.
#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.
