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    The document summarizes a study analyzing tweets from Russian troll accounts linked to the Internet Research Agency. Researchers from Clemson University collected over 2.9 million tweets from over 2,800 Twitter accounts and analyzed what topics the Russian trolls were tweeting about. The study provides the most comprehensive view to date of Russian troll social media activity during the 2016 US presidential election.

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    The document summarizes a study analyzing tweets from Russian troll accounts linked to the Internet Research Agency. Researchers from Clemson University collected over 2.9 million tweets from over 2,800 Twitter accounts and analyzed what topics the Russian trolls were tweeting about. The study provides the most comprehensive view to date of Russian troll social media activity during the 2016 US presidential election.

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    WHAT’S NEW NOW

    THE WHY AXIS

    What Russian Trolls Are


    Tweeting About BY ROB MARVIN

    T
    he 12 Russians indicted earlier this year for meddling in the 2016 US
    presidential election had day jobs at the Internet Research Agency
    (IRA), a St. Petersburg-based company and Russia’s most infamous
    troll factory.

    Two Clemson University researchers, Darren Linvill and Patrick Warren, used
    social media tracking software to collect 2,973,371 tweets from 2,848 Twitter
    handles traced back to the IRA. The result, published and analyzed by data-
    driven journalism outlet FiveThirtyEight, is the most comprehensive view we’ve
    seen to date of Russian trolls’ social media activity.

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