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Twitter Publishes Archive of 10 Million Tweets From Russian, Iranian Bots (boingboing.net)

Posted by BeauHD on from the influence-campaigns dept.

AmiMoJo shares a report from Boing Boing: To enable "further research of information operations on Twitter," the company today published a dataset of tweets posted by known Russian and Iranian troll farms. "These large datasets comprise 3,841 accounts affiliated with the IRA, originating in Russia, and 770 other accounts, potentially originating in Iran," the blog post reads. "They include more than 10 million Tweets and more than 2 million images, GIFs, videos, and Periscope broadcasts, including the earliest on-Twitter activity from accounts connected with these campaigns, dating back to 2009." You can download the Russian and Iranian datasets here. The Russian dataset is comprised of 1.24GB of tweets and 300GB of media, while the Iranian dataset is comprised of 168MB of tweets and 65.7GB of media.

3 of 144 comments (clear)

  1. Re:What about the Souther Poverty Law Center? by PopeRatzo · · Score: 1, Interesting

    The only difference is they are funded by idiots in this country instead of the governments of others.

    Well, that's a pretty big goddamn difference, isn't it?

    When an American or American organization tries to sway and election, it's called "campaigning". When a foreign government tries to do it, it's called espionage, treason, invasion.

    One is legal. The other can get you bombed, at least if we had a President instead of a punk like Trump who foreign dictators use like a woman.

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  2. Re:What about US & Five Eyes bots? by houghi · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Yeah, but in America the bots are humans that are brainwashed by one of the two party systems news sources.

    (Self test: If you are offended by the information above, you are re-programmed.)

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  3. Re:What about the Souther Poverty Law Center? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The former President of Mexico just endorsed a US political candidate and encouraged Mexicans in the US to vote for him.
    This is foreign interference in the US elections. Should the US now start bombing Mexico?

    China took out several full page ads in US newspapers recently, encouraging people to vote against Republicans.
    This is foreign interference in the US elections. Should the US now start bombing China?