How to Fool Americans on Twitter

nivek

As Above So Below
Russian trolls, posing as American conservatives, tapped into the most hateful, toxic conversations in US politics, and amplified them to millions of people.

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As part of their appearance in front of the House and Senate Intelligence committees earlier last week, Twitter released over 4,500 accounts it had suspended as part of its internal investigation into Russian meddling on their platform.

These accounts are no longer accessible by the public, but in summer 2016 my startup, New Knowledge, had already uncovered 40 of the accounts that Twitter now acknowledges were Russian trolls, and collected 7,500 of their tweets. Our data about these accounts’ activity reveal that the trolls repeatedly created laughable caricatures of US conservatives, and lied about divisive social issues to pit Americans against each other.

How to Fool Americans on Twitter
 

Shadowprophet

Truthiness
I've been meaning to ask. Is it possible the political divide was also fueled and sparked by some outside source? Like a divide and conquer kind of thing?
 

3FEL9

Islander
Are there any western trolls working the russians then ?

Theres plenty of sensitive stuff to tweet about

Such as
  • Corruption
  • Lack of democracy
  • Silencing and murder of opposition politicians
  • Ukraine
  • Chechnya
  • Homofobia
  • Putin
Just a few
 
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CasualBystander

Celestial
I've been meaning to ask. Is it possible the political divide was also fueled and sparked by some outside source? Like a divide and conquer kind of thing?

Well, no and yes.

The Russians fueled both sides of the debate.

But the left in America is insane. So there was plenty of fuel there already.

There is a long list of insanity on the left (I'll add as I get time):
1. There are up to 54 or infinity number of genders.
2. Speech by the right is hate speech.
3. Hateful things said by the left are not hate speech and the left is basically incapable of hate speech.
4. Hate speech isn't protected by constitution.
5. Hate speech is violence.
 
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