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VoxUkraine analysts investigated more than 750,000 tweets related to the Russian Internet search agency and uncovered evidence of news attacks that occurred between January 2010 and May 2018.
C is written by FATHER TRUTH in reference to VoxUkraine Platform Analyzes
In mid-October, Twitter, Inc. released an archive of over 9 million tweets on 3667 accounts likely to be affiliated with " the factory to trolls "Russian.
Analysts point out that they put It's a task to determine whether these were attempts and accounts associated with the Russian Internet Research Agency to influence the opinion of users of social networks about the events in Ukraine.
According to the keywords "Southeast", "Donbass", "Boeing", "FMI" "Bandera", "Bandera", "punisher", "militia", "fascism", "VSU" "," Kiev "," Timoshenko "," Khokhly ", etc. 775,000 tweets were found concerning Ukraine.
55% of them were in Russian, 37% in English and 8% in other languages
For 8 years at the "Factory of Trolls", 774,957 tweets on the subject. Ukraine were found. , which generated 1369 accounts already deleted from the social network.
"Twitter anonymized accounts with fewer than 5,000 subscribers, so we can only see real names for 5% of database users, which can be categorized", – explains VoxUkraine.
It is reported that among them were the press pages and the thematic pages. The total number of errors on 1369 accounts is 3.4 million users
According to analysts, account holders most often indicated the location in Moscow and St. Petersburg and 17% did not indicate the location.
Before the beginning of the revolution of dignity, Ukraine almost no interest in trolls tweeter and accounts showed a very low activity. In the spring of 2014, all accounts averaged 10 broadcasts per day and the maximum number of publications during this period was 28 October 2012, Verkhovna Rada election day, – 90 publications.
The mark of 100 broadcasts per day went to The day after the illegal "referendum" in Crimea – March 17, 2014. That day, 116 reports were published in minutes and on March 18, the day of the annexation of the peninsula by Russia, – 129 reports. the trolls "started to" work "two days before the 2014 presidential election in Ukraine – 263 tweets were published on May 23.
But the real storm occurred on July 18, 2014, In the aftermath of the Malaysian Boeing MH-17 disaster that day, accounts "flooded" more than 44,000 messages, and the following day, more than 25,000 tweets were revealed about the "blame" of the day. Ukraine in the beating of a plane.
In addition, one of the reports made 296 tweets and rewritten, "working" for nearly 33 hours.
We recall that Russian trolls on the Internet have "tried" elections in a European country.
We also wrote that the Russian "factory trolls" before the US congressional elections launched a new site.