3 Million Russian troll tweets
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FiveThirtyEight; Warren, Patrick ;Linvill, Darren
Publication Date:
2018
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Dataset Description:
This directory contains data on nearly 3 million tweets sent from Twitter handles connected to the Internet Research Agency, a Russian "troll factory" and a defendant in an indictment filed by the Justice Department in February 2018, as part of special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation. The tweets in this database were sent between February 2012 and May 2018, with the vast majority posted from 2015 through 2017. Each entry includes detailed information such as the tweet's content, author handle, language, publication date, and engagement metrics (e.g., number of followers, following count). The dataset provides classifications for each account, indicating the thematic focus (e.g., Right Troll, Left Troll, News Feed), as coded by researchers Darren Linvill and Patrick Warren. It has a total size of 507,2 kB.
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