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    The researchers analyzed almost 3 million tweets from troll accounts and sorted them into categories. They found that the most common category was non-English tweets, making up 28.2% of tweets. The second most common were right-wing troll accounts, which accounted for 24.2% of tweets. The researchers broke troll tweets into five main categories: Left Troll, Right Troll, News Feed, Hashtag Gamer, and Fearmonger. Right Trolls, consisting of 617 accounts tweeting 663,740 times, acted like pro-Trump Americans focused on pushing anti-immigration and political messages.

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    The researchers analyzed almost 3 million tweets from troll accounts and sorted them into categories. They found that the most common category was non-English tweets, making up 28.2% of tweets. The second most common were right-wing troll accounts, which accounted for 24.2% of tweets. The researchers broke troll tweets into five main categories: Left Troll, Right Troll, News Feed, Hashtag Gamer, and Fearmonger. Right Trolls, consisting of 617 accounts tweeting 663,740 times, acted like pro-Trump Americans focused on pushing anti-immigration and political messages.

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    2018-09-01 PC Magazine 17

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    The researchers analyzed almost 3 million tweets from troll accounts and sorted them into categories. They found that the most common category was non-English tweets, making up 28.2% of tweets. The second most common were right-wing troll accounts, which accounted for 24.2% of tweets. The researchers broke troll tweets into five main categories: Left Troll, Right Troll, News Feed, Hashtag Gamer, and Fearmonger. Right Trolls, consisting of 617 accounts tweeting 663,740 times, acted like pro-Trump Americans focused on pushing anti-immigration and political messages.

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    The researchers’ breakdown identified some interesting

    trends by sorting the troll accounts into different


    categories based on their tweets. While the most
    popular category was simply non-English tweets at 28.2 Right behind
    percent, right behind it were right-wing troll accounts, it were right-
    which made up 24.2 percent of the almost 3 million wing troll
    tweets analyzed. accounts,
    which made up
    24.2 percent of
    the almost 3
    million tweets
    analyzed.

    Linvill and Warren broke down the troll tweets into five
    primary categories: Left Troll, Right Troll, News Feed,
    Hashtag Gamer, and Fearmonger. Linvill said Right
    Trolls, accounting for 617 handles and 663,740 tweets,
    act like “bread-and-butter MAGA Americans, only all
    they do is talk about politics all day long,” pushing out
    tweets with anti-immigration rhetoric, for example.

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