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

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.

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Twitter is completely leftist

[Anonymous Coward]

Twitter is completely leftist. Here in Brazil we have a lot of videos and screenshots of Twitter trending topics manipulation. During one of presidential debate, million of twitter users witnessed live trending topics manipulation. The users from right candidate have reached 3 or 4 different hashtags because twitter has removed the millions of trending hashtags... Don't believe this is a beautiful publishing... this is a filtrated release and we even are able to be confident of the true and context behind those postings...

Re: Brazil is electing a nazi because they're lazy

[Anonymous Coward]

No there actually electing a man and not a pussy.

Twitter is Toxic Liberal Dumpster Fire

[supercell]

It is a complete liberal progressive, algorithmic , echo chamber that should be TLD to 127.0.0.1 It is harmful to the internet.