Russian trolls went on attack during key election moments

[applegrove]

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/russian-trolls-went-attack-during-key-election-moments-n827176

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Twitter has identified 2,752 accounts as being linked to the Kremlin. In November, Congress released the list of account names.

NBC News took those names and cross-referenced it against data held by three sources familiar with Twitter's API, an online system that allows software developers to work user data, generated a database of 202,973 tweets sent by known Russian trolls. The sources asked that their names be withheld to avoid being identified as possibly violating Twitter's developer policy.

The resulting database from 454 of the identified accounts is "one of the largest" known repositories of deleted Russian Twitter troll activity to date, according to Jonathan Albright, research director at Columbia University's Tow Center for Digital Journalism.

Those tweets from accounts impersonating real Americans earned 2.1 million retweets and nearly 1.9 million favorites from their duped followers.

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[Kirk Lover]

1. I certainly notice a significance difference on twitter. There are much less of them and

deplorables just don't answer back like they used to. I say to the known deplorables ...it's awfully lonely for you without your bot friends huh toots?