Twitter has published data sets of millions of tweets, images, videos, and thousands of accounts linked to Russia and Iran meddling for analysis by researchers
http://blog.twitter.com/... No surprises, there are several disinformation accounts which push Jeremy Corbyn's narratives /1 Thomas Rid / @ridt : So this is fascinating and good news for researchers: Twitter just released more than 10M posts from accounts used for disinformation, including activity from 3,841 accounts linked to the infamous Internet Research Agency in St Petersburg http://blog.twitter.com/... http://twitter.com/... Kevin Poulsen / @kpoulsen : Kudos to Twitter for doing this http://twitter.com/... Karl Bode / @karlbode : Remember all the folks that tried to claim these disinformation operations were just a handful of nitwits using broken English to post a few harmless memes? https://twitter.com/... Ben Nimmo / @benimmo : Main takeaways. The troll operations: - were about the home government first - had multiple goals - targeted specific activist communities - apolitical - opportunistic - evolved - not always high-impact https://medium.com/... Jeff Jarvis / @jeffjarvis : Glad to see this. http://twitter.com/... Craig Silverman / @craigsilverman : Your move @facebook http://twitter.com/... @business : Twitter has published data sets comprised of millions of tweets linked to operatives who have sought to use the platform for nefarious purposes http://www.bloomberg.com/... @ia : For troll hunters: “3,841 accounts affiliated with the IRA, originating in Russia, and 770 other accounts, potentially originating in Iran. They include more than 10 million Tweets and more than 2 million images, GIFs, videos, and Periscope broadcasts” http://blog.twitter.com/...