Timeline for Are there examples of Russian "disinformation" on social media that tried to influence the last two US presidential elections?
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| May 22, 2022 at 5:02 | comment | added | wrod | I don't know how influential RT was on Twitter. There is an NBC data dump of RT retweets during 2016 campaign. I don't have a link to it, but I have a local copy. RT was retweeted around 200k times total. It just didn't have that much of a reach. And here's a histogram of the number of users with the highest number of retweets: {9200: 1, 6800: 1, 6600: 1, 4100: 1, 3600: 1, 3300: 1, 3200: 6, 3100: 11, 3000: 4, 2900: 7, 2700: 2, 2600: 2, 2500: 1} Even if these are bots, we are not talking anything mind boggling. | |
| May 21, 2022 at 19:05 | comment | added | Italian Philosopher | @frеdsbend Well, your title of your question asked about both. Also a good place to look would be Russian backing for Trump's "Steal the Vote" smear. However plug in "fake news Russia election steal" and ... you are flooded. Which makes me think Lag's answer based on Nov 2020 report is pretty solid, if not citing an unbiased party. Re. RT the point is not whether Americans watch it, it is to diff between random trolls (no RT amplification) from RU trolls (RT amplification). | |
| May 20, 2022 at 13:08 | comment | added | user2578 | Is there something more current, than the War on the Rocks from November 2016? That was while the "Trump/Russia" hysteria was climbing. I'd rather see a current analysis, now that I think we're past that. ---- I'm not sure I get how RT saying something is evidence of social media activity. I imagine few Americans read the RT. | |
| May 19, 2022 at 17:46 | comment | added | uberhaxed | Perhaps your link should be pointing to the Wikipedia article then? I was pointing out that your source doesn't agree with your statement, not that the statement is wrong. | |
| May 19, 2022 at 17:23 | comment | added | Italian Philosopher | Easy to find elsewhere if you look. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia_and_Black_Lives_Matter : While Russian operatives have engaged in an online campaign to encourage supporters of the Black Lives Matter movement, their efforts also have included promoting opposition against the group, including inciting violence against the group's supporters Remember, they are not in to help BLM, they are there to get Westerners upset at each other. | |
| May 19, 2022 at 16:23 | comment | added | uberhaxed | The WP source doesn't agree with your statement about interference with the BLM movement in 2020. A quote from the article, On the one hand, positive images and videos featured stories about black excellence and achievements that helped further scientific, technological and social progress. On the other, negative visuals typically showed incidents of police brutality or white Americans doing something racist.; while your claim is that the Russian government both discredits and inflames the movement. There's no evidence that they discredit the movement at all. | |
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| May 18, 2022 at 23:51 | history | answered | Italian Philosopher | CC BY-SA 4.0 |