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> We identify a large network of Twitter accounts that demonstrate multiple forms of coordinated inauthentic activity. The network consists of 62 accounts in
by AndyMcConachie 5y ago
> We identify a large network of Twitter accounts that
demonstrate multiple forms of coordinated inauthentic
activity. The network consists of 62 accounts in total, 29 of
which were recently active until we flagged their activity for
Twitter.
29 active accounts is 'a large network'?
From this report:
https://demtech.oii.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/127/2021/05/Chinas-Inauthentic-UK-Twitter-Diplomacy-Dem.Tech-Working-Paper-2021.2-2.pdf https://demtech.oii.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/127/20...
- Ekaros 5y agoEven the 62 accounts? That is like nothing, I would expect single person to manage half of that in a day with efficient tools. Why are these numbers always so laughable like all the press of Russian spending couple tens of thousand on advertising, when in general speding was in billions. I wonder how many pro-DNC troll accounts there are too, and why those aren't tracked in like?
- pessimizer 5y agoThere was one that I remember that twitter had to be pushed to do anything about. Notably, the operator of the network wasn't banned. How A Twitter Fight Over Bernie Sanders Revealed A Network Of Fake Accounts https://www.huffpost.com/entry/democratic-bot-network-sally-albright_n_5aa2f548e4b07047bec68023 https://www.huffpost.com/entry/democratic-bot-network-sally-... Shareblue Astroturf Analysis https://shareblueastroturf.netlify.app/ https://shareblueastroturf.netlify.app/ It's just sockpuppeting at scale, although I'm not sure of the real difference between paying 100 people to post similar stuff, and paying 1 person to run 100 accounts. Every large organization that wants to manipulate opinion does this, and the only distinction between the former and the latter is that paying 100 people requires a lot of money.