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Let's examine Twitter traffic related to the ongoing #GiletsJaunes protests. This analysis focuses on activity in English (i.e., no French tweets) and therefore likely reflects attempted influence on English-speaking countries vs other countries.

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We downloaded tweets in English containing #GiletsJaunes, yielding 85586 tweets from 49107 accounts in the last ten days.

For those wishing to perform the same search, use the following query:

#GiletsJaunes lang:en
Retweet network for English #GiletsJaunes tweets. The largest node is @BreakingNLive, a news feed account that has posted a dozen or so videos. The official Russia Today account (@RT_com) and pro-Assad propagandist/New Eastern Outlook contributor @PartisanGirl also participated.
(more on New Eastern Outlook here)
What news sources are being used by people tweeting about the #GiletsJaunes protests in English? The most frequently linked site by far is RT. Given recent Ukraine/Russia events, the editorial comparing the situations in France and Ukraine is particularly noteworthy.
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Time for some fun with political vocabulary. We downloaded English-language tweets containing "neocon", "neoconservative", "neolib", or "neoliberal", resulting in 40747 tweets from 24603 accounts in the last 10 days.

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How are these labels used? Based on the fact that only 15 of the 40747 tweets contain one of the phrases below, people aren't self-identifying as neocon/neolib. Anecdotally, the majority of uses are pejorative, typically directed at folks deemed insufficiently ideologically pure.
Combined retweet network for neocon(servative)/neolib(eral). The accounts using only neocon(servative) are largely right-wing, while those using neo(liberal) or both are generally left-wing.
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There's been a bit of tempest in a teapot lately re the #IntegrityInitiative, following the release of leaked documents. We downloaded tweets containing "Integrity Initiative"/#IntegrityInitiative, yielding 27213 tweets from 9054 accounts in the last 10 days.

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Retweet network for "Integrity Initiative"/#IntegrityInitiative. Several of the prominent accounts (@georgegalloway, @Ian56789, @ShoebridgeC) have a history of pushing #FalseFlag theories about the #Skripal poisoning. Sputnik reporter @KitKlarenberg also puts in an appearance.
Speaking of Sputnik, here are the media sources most frequently linked from tweets containing "Integrity Initiative"/#IntegrityInitiative. Sputnik and RT comprise 45% of the volume, with the majority of the rest being comprised of Western conspiracy-oriented sites.
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Meet @ASGFiltration. At first glance this appears to be a promotional Twitter account for a business, but some of the content is. . . odd. The account has replied 722 times with the tweet pictured, and many of the replies seem out of context.

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The tweet referencing Trump is not the only tweet @ASGFiltration has repeated. It is the most frequently repeated and the only one that is overtly political.
Repetition of tweets suggests a bot. @ASGFiltration doesn't tweet 24/7 and posts all tweets via the Twitter website making automation hard to prove, but manually posting the same tweet 722 times sounds more than a bit drudgerous.
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This will be my #GiletsJaunes Thread of Tomorrow in #Paris and across #France! Keep this Thread open and refresh once it will start! I Will be reporting again in my Home Studio of the situation.
#Breaking: It's happening! Reports of the First #GiletsJaunes protestors arriving in #Paris. #ActeVIII
#Update: People are preparing their signs to go and protest. #GiletsJaunes #ActeVIII
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Lowest #GiletsJaunes turnout ever! Not even 3000 people nation wide in #France as new years eve approaches! #YellowVests #Acte7
#Update: In most cities in #France the event didn't even started! Despite they registered to tun out on #Facebook for #GiletsJaunes protests!
#Update: According to police in #Paris not even 300 people came to the capital to protests! There are more tourists on the #ChampsElysees then #GiletsJaunes protestors! Even a low turn out police force in #Paris not even 200 law enforcment in Paris.
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This is a (developing) thread about a handful of folks blocking a bridge.

More than that, it's about the weird ecosystem of Far Right activists, media outlets and social media livestreaming that has developed. THREAD 1/
We're pretty much all familiar with the #GiletsJaunes protests that originated in France.

They have many driving factors, but these protests do hold a core of genuine popular discontent.

The success of these protests have inspired many activists, including the Far Right. /2
Activists from the French Generation Identitaire have thrown support behind the protests, & are using them as a recruiting tool.

Using a slick social media presence, they have framed the movement as an anti-migration protest.

This has not gone unnoticed over the Channel. /3
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1/ TIL two things:
1. I can still read French well enough to understand a leftist French journal
2. The #GiletsJaunes protests, as I predicted, are making the French left quite uneasy.
2/ I have quite an amusing set of skeletons in my closet. One of them was being involved in the hard left when I was in college. I used to read journals like this: lutte-ouvriere.org/communiques/mo…
3/ I said previously that for all the left has been dying for a new mass mobilization, the irony is they are now on the wrong side of things.
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"Among 600 Twitter accounts known to promote Kremlin views, the top hashtag now is #GiletsJaunes.

“That’s a pretty strong indication that there is interest in amplifying the conflict” for audiences outside France" #YellowVests bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
A separate analysis found that hundreds of social media accounts linked to Russia – many of them sock puppets – have sought to amplify the #GiletsJaunes protests, focusing on the violence and chaos #YellowVests
thetimes.co.uk/article/russia…
There's one of the pro-Kremlin disinformation accounts now, seeking to amplify the perception of the #GiletsJaunes riots as a pro-Trump, anti-liberal movement opposed to the Paris Agreement and helping "questionably run third world [sh*thole] countries." #YellowVests
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THREAD.
Ok so let's start analyzing a bit what could happen tomorrow. All the docs, images and videos are previously published by #GiletsJaunes protesters in #France (#Paris, #Nice and other cities).
One of the first things I noticed is that many #GiletsJaunes will be in #Paris tomorrow to protest #Macron's presidency.
People here have different political opinions and sometimes they started arguing on Telegram channels. Sometimes they even threaten each other.
Despite small quarrels between few members, #GiletsJaunes' admins are pretty organized (or at least they look so). Some useful maps and schemes are shared with members.
1st pic: how to avoid policemen and why a militant must not talk with them.
2nd pic: metro stations in #Paris.
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