Have you used our tools such as @Botometer, Hoaxy, and Fakey? They will stop working soon once @Twitter discontinues free access to the API. This decision will affect many research projects and useful tools including those by @OSoMe_IU.

#NoResearchWithoutAPI

🧵1/ Our tools are free for all. Thousands of users daily leverage them to identify manipulation & study online narratives. If Twitter charges for the API, even at a very low price, we will have to terminate the tools or charge for use, excluding most users.
#NoResearchWithoutAPI

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In our white paper "Suspicious Twitter Activity around the Russian Invasion of #Ukraine" we present some preliminary evidence of suspicious activity obtained from analysis of 60 million tweets posted since February 1. Here is what we found:

osome.iu.edu/research/blog/…

1/ 🧵 The five most linked low-credibility sources include four Russian sources (rt, sputniknews, ria_ru, kremlin_ru) and zerohedge, a disinformation source amplifying Russian propaganda, according to U.S. intelligence sources.

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1/ Since 2010 we've been studying how to detect coordinated influence campaigns: one entity controls many accounts to amplify narratives and create false grassroots movements (aka astroturf). 2/ Here is an example of this type of manipulation, reported by @businessinsider: "How diehard Trump fans transformed their Twitter accounts into bots which spread conspiracies in a vast Russia-style disinformation network" businessinsider.com/power10-activi…