The paper[1] says that they use "accounts known to be bots or trolls and identified in 7 publicly available lists of Twitter user IDs" such as this list ... ht

The paper[1] says that they use "accounts known to be bots or trolls and identified in 7 publicly available lists of Twitter user IDs" such as this list ... https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/now-available-more-200-000-deleted-russian-troll-tweets-n844731 https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/now-available-more... A lot of what gets reported as "Russian trolls" is based on the data from this site ... https://dashboard.securingdemocracy.org/ https://dashboard.securingdemocracy.org/ which monitors 600 twitter accounts that link content "relevant to Russian messaging themes." You can read more about their methodology here ... https://securingdemocracy.gmfus.org/the-methodology-of-the-hamilton-68-dashboard/ https://securingdemocracy.gmfus.org/the-methodology-of-the-h... [1] http://media1.s-nbcnews.com/i/today/z_creative/WeaponizedHealthCommunicationDavid%20BFULLSTUDY.PDF http://media1.s-nbcnews.com/i/today/z_creative/WeaponizedHea...