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🚨BREAKING: @Twitter just released "full, comprehensive archives" of tweets from Russian and Iranian troll farms.

@DFRlab had a brief advance opportunity to analyze the nearly complete archive. Here's what we know: medium.com/dfrlab/trolltr…

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@Twitter In Part Two of our series, @DFRLab took a deep dive into the content from the IRA with a specific focus on its second wave of accounts, which were active after 2017.

medium.com/dfrlab/trolltr…

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@Twitter In Part Three of our series, @DFRLab took a deep dive into the content from the Iranian🇮🇷 troll farm with a focus on its purpose, behavior, and impact.

medium.com/dfrlab/trolltr…

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@Twitter Have some time for a long read?

In Part Four of our series, @DFRLab expands on assessments of content from the entirety of @Twitter's archive — including Russian🇷🇺 and Iranian🇮🇷 troll farms.

medium.com/dfrlab/trolltr…

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Ben Nimmo @benimmo

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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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