Twitter Releases Full Tweet Archive From Russian, Iranian Trolls
How many tweets can state-sponsored net trolls publish? Millions, according to Twitter.
On Midweek, the visitor released a full archive of over 10 meg tweets it suspects came from Russian and Iranian trolls, in a bid to help academics investigate online information warfare.
"Independent analysis of this activity past researchers is a key pace toward promoting shared understanding of these threats," Twitter said in a weblog mail service.
The archive is largely fabricated up of tweets from iii,841 accounts affiliated with the Internet Research Agency, a notorious "troll farm" based in Russian federation that the United states believes tried to influence the 2022 presidential election.
According to federal investigators, the troll farm created simulated Twitter accounts pretending to be US-based groups or activists, and then published tweets meant to secretly spread propaganda and misinformation to the American public.
In January, Twitter notified 1.four million people in the US who had encountered tweets from the suspected Russian troll accounts. Just today is the kickoff time the company has made all the tweets from the Russian troll accounts available to the public. Another 770 accounts in the archive have been sourced to actors in Islamic republic of iran, who used the same tactics to spread misinformation.
The full annal is over 360GB in size and covers the troll activity Twitter has detected from the Russian and Iranian groups since 2022. The files not only contains text to the tweets, but besides images, GIFs, and videos the internet trolls used.
The Atlantic Quango, a US think tank, received early access to the annal and published a blog post about its findings. Information technology said over 9 million tweets in the archive came from the Russian troll accounts.
"The Russian trolls were not-partisan: they tried to inflame everybody, regardless of race, creed, politics, or sexual orientation. On many occasions, they pushed both sides of divisive problems," the Atlantic Council wrote. "Content spread from the troll farm accounts was designed to capitalize on, and corrupt, genuine political activism."
Source: https://sea.pcmag.com/news/29973/twitter-releases-full-tweet-archive-from-russian-iranian-trolls
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