Twitter opens archive of 4,500 accounts related to Russia and Iran’s political propaganda
https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/17/twitter-opens-archive-of-4500-accounts-related-to-russia-and-irans-political-propaganda/
After getting hauled into Washington to be grilled over how its social media platform was exploited to influence public opinion around elections and politics in the US and elsewhere, Twitter vowed that it would be more open with its data, in an attempt to do better in the future — the idea partly being that others can provide more insight into what nefarious groups did on Twitter, and partly people will not mistrust Twitter in its own intentions to keep this off its platform. Now it’s coming good on some of that.
Today, Twitter released a set of data files detailing Tweets and other actions taken by more then 4,500 accounts on the site linked to state-backed information operations, specifically: 3,841 accounts associated with Russia’s Internet Research Agency and 770 other accounts “potentially originating in Iran.”