{"id":4162,"date":"2018-08-08T22:11:52","date_gmt":"2018-08-08T22:11:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/08\/what-you-found-in-3-million-russian-troll-tweets-fivethirtyeight\/"},"modified":"2018-08-08T22:11:52","modified_gmt":"2018-08-08T22:11:52","slug":"what-you-found-in-3-million-russian-troll-tweets-fivethirtyeight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/08\/what-you-found-in-3-million-russian-troll-tweets-fivethirtyeight\/","title":{"rendered":"What You Found In 3 Million Russian Troll Tweets | FiveThirtyEight"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Last week, FiveThirtyEight <\/span>published nearly 3 million tweets<\/a> <\/span>sent by handles affiliated with the Internet Research Agency, a Russian \u201ctroll factory.\u201d That group was a defendant in one of special counsel Robert Mueller\u2019s indictments, which accused the IRA of interfering with American electoral and political processes.<\/p>\n

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What follows is a sampling of reader projects that came to my attention via Twitter (where else?) and email. The projects reinforce and expand upon the Clemson researchers\u2019 <\/span>initial finding<\/a>: The trolls were engaged in a sophisticated and intricate Russian assault on the political debate in America and several other countries. It was an assault waged both before and after the 2016 presidential election \u2014 and an assault that <\/span>appears to continue<\/a>, at least in some form, to this day.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Last week, FiveThirtyEight published nearly 3 million tweets sent by handles affiliated with the Internet Research Agency, a Russian \u201ctroll factory.\u201d That group was a defendant in one of special counsel Robert Mueller\u2019s indictments, which accused the IRA of interfering with American electoral and political processes. […] What follows is a sampling of reader projects […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pfIY-158","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}