Thread by @cbouzy

It took us 150 hours to analyze and review the tweets, retweets, mentions, and friend/follower connections outlined in the report. We painstakingly examined everything because we knew other researchers and members of the media would scrutinize our work.
washingtonpost.com/technology/202…

We used precise language in the report, and we released the list of accounts so there would be no doubt of our findings. For example, a woman Twitter previously suspended operates the duchofnarsussex and OSS_SOE_21 accounts, and we suspect the Queen_Leinster account as well.

Immediately after we published the report, the owners of Twelve accounts on the list either deactivated their accounts or protected their tweets. The accounts in question used the same avoidance tactics outlined in our report.

We observed a significant decrease in the activity targeting Meghan and Harry shortly after we published the report. If the activity had been organic, it is highly unlikely we would have witnessed such a sharp decrease in such a short period of time.

And let me be clear, the report is not about a group of accounts who just say "mean things." They are single-purpose accounts dedicated to creating and disseminating hateful and often fictitious content meant to deceive, and they openly coordinate on and off Twitter.