Author: Tristan Greene / Source: The Next Web
Twitter yesterday released a bevy of data related to Iranian and Russian-sponsored misinformation campaigns started as long ago as 2009. The hope, in releasing the trove, is that academics and researchers will use it to come up with solutions to the propaganda problem plaguing US politics.
November 6th represents the next symbolic test for US democracy. As the nation hurtles towards its Midterm elections, with both the House and Senate up for grabs, it’s become apparent that ‘election security’ is a goal, not a reality.
The Twitter datasets might help change that. They should help researchers figure out exactly why certain misinformation tactics are especially effective against the US public – without hard data to look at, we’re guessing.
According to Twitter the information released yesterday contains information from:
… 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…
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