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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Re:Bad job twitter

[Anonymous Coward]

It's part of the basic trolling toolset, to establish yourself by linking to real news before you start on the disinformation. Effective trolls mix and match between reality and distortion, thereby infecting the reality with their distortion.