#TrollTracker Part Three — Assessing a covert Iranian social media influence campaign Twitter Troll Farm Archives, Digital Forensic Research Lab, Atlantic Council, October 17, 2018 Iranian trolls were aimed at influence, but it should not be confused with the concurrent Russian one. Some of its posts were aimed at polarized audiences in the U.S., notably the anti-Trump […]Read More

#TrollTracker: Part Two — How the Internet Research Agency regenerated on Twitter after its accounts were suspended Twitter Troll Farm Archives, Digital Forensic Research Lab, Atlantic Council, October 17, 2018 The chief lesson is that the Russian attempt to spread division continued after its initial accounts were suspended. This second wave of troll accounts masqueraded as hyper-partisan activists. […]Read More

#TrollTracker: Part One — Seven key take aways from a comprehensive archive of known Russian and Iranian troll operations Twitter Troll Farm Archives, Digital Forensic Research Lab, Atlantic Council, October 17, 2018 On October 17, Twitter released an archive of over ten million tweets posted and over nine million tweets were attributable to 3,800 accounts affiliated with the […]Read More

Twitter released all the accounts and related content associated with potential information operations found on their service since 2016. These large datasets comprise 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 more than 2 million images, GIFs, videos, […]Read More