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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…
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…
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.
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#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….) Image
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. Image
#Trollfarm posts on the anniversary of the Ferguson riots, under #FergusonRemembers. Image
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