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I visualized the evolution of Iranian, Chinese, Russian, Ecuadorian, Venezuelan, and Egyptian/UAE operation datasets that @Twitter has released incrementally since 2018 2/pic.twitter.com/gtuNCLbeYD
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Want to watch 6 disinfo operations unfold in 6 minutes? Thanks to a @Mozilla Open Source Support grant, I’ve done just that with network visualization and documented some interesting patterns on Medium https://medium.com/@alexa.pavliuc/watch-six-decade-long-disinformation-operations-unfold-in-six-minutes-5f69a7e75fb3 … 1/
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When you unfurl network visualizations over time, you can observe the bursts of activity and quiet periods of these operations, and the strategies they deployed. 3/
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Take China, where accounts created over the last decade were deployed during the operations largest burst of activity before being shut down. New (dark grey) accounts were also created to further add to the conversation of more established (green, blue) accounts 4/pic.twitter.com/CWyrBx5BrB
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Differences in patterns and structures like these may help us recognize the activities of certain groups/countries in the future, if we learn what to look for. A big thank you to
@camillefrancois and@benimmo for helping support this research!#disinformation#AcademicChatter 5/5Show this thread -
Also if anyone has PhD funding for work like this that would be cooool!
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Would love to read it. Unfortunately the link chrashes my iPad.
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That's strange. There are 7 embedded videos and lots of images but no one else has had that issue!
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Cool project & great visualizations! For China: we believed (as did others) they purchased or otherwise took over their accounts. early tweets were mostly spam/compromised account activity. They didn’t appear to be building them up. (unlike
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Thank you. I really admire your work and appreciate you noticing mine! Yes, you're right. It's interesting to watch them dive into the HK protest region in 2019!
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funny how at first glance i assumed these were viruses or something
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Yep. The first time I did a temporal view of a network my jaw dropped!
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