[FiveThirtyEight] Why We're Sharing 3 Million Russian Troll Tweets

[Splash Attack]

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-were-sharing-3-million-russian-troll-tweets/

GitHub Link to .csv files of the tweets

Also interesting:

https://fivethirtyeight.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/roeder-russiantweets-2.png?w=575

[Zakk]

W I T C H
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[Babnux]

Jesus the amount of people who fall for these troll bot tweets is absolutely terrifying, all the moreso because it's completely unrelatable to me.

[Jaguar]

Can't wait for people to ingredient discredit it because it mentions gamers.

[Pseudonym]

It's not even that kind of gamer.

[StratoSlug]

How difficult would it be to set up some sort of bot blocker sorta like a captcha that would be done before posting or sharing on FB?

[BlackPhoenix]

They are probably already manual. There are real people behind these "bot accounts".

[proboardslol]

Facebook: Please answer this captcha before posting a status:

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Vadim: Cyka blyat!

[Saint Furrybutt]

Hmm, Weird they didn't included Centrist 'troll(s)' (Mimics self-subscribed apolitically folks, diehard Clinton supporters and DNC defenders) in this chart.

[smurfy]

Still have to step back sometimes and think about how recently government-funded shitposting bots would have been something we joked about

[Splash Attack]

If you think there is a significant number of those things, I'm sure you could comb through the data yourself and come up with a chart on that. It's possible that there weren't a significant number of those groups you mention in the sourced tweets or it wasn't clear enough to separate.

[Saint Furrybutt]

No, I just question why they excluded the Centrist trolls out of their data and their chart. Since lot people [in Internet or real-life] accusing there was David Brock trolls trying attacking people for having different opinion about then-primary/presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.

[Alec W]

Because Centrist trolling is like pissing in an ocean of piss.

[Chris_the_qt]

Gamers rise up is a Russian psyop