Some days ago the journalist Charlotte Godart contacted me and asked me to explain how to use my script tweet_analysis.py. Her goal was to convert Twitter datasets about Chinese propaganda into graphs, so that people can see how the Chinese government operates on Twitter to influence their opinion. While helping her I had the possibility … Continue reading About Chinese propaganda on Twitter: drawing data 📊
This is the third and last post about the Internet Research Agency dataset, which was shared by Twitter in October 2018. In Part II I have focused on the European situation – especially in Germany, Italy, France and Spain – to understand if the Russian government might have tried to spread disinformation as it did … Continue reading About Iran and IRA Twitter datasets (for fun) – Part III
Questo post doveva essere pubblicato verso giugno 2019, l’ho scritto in quel periodo, poi si sa, è facile procrastinare, gli imprevisti sono dietro l’angolo, le scalette personali mutano, capitano settimane impegnative, e le bozze rimangono salvate a prendere polvere. Ci tengo molto a ringraziare le persone – tante – che mi hanno fatto sentire il … Continue reading #Hack5Stelle
In this post I will move forward on the analysis of Twitter datasets, that I have started in December. You can read the previous post, “About Iran and IRA Twitter datasets (for fun) – Part I”. This time I have focused on the potential Russian propaganda in Europe, so I have decided to analyse the … Continue reading About Iran and IRA Twitter datasets (for fun) – Part II
On 17 October 2018 Twitter released two datasets about the propaganda accounts of the Internet Research Agency (IRA) and Iran. Each dataset has three parts: a CSV file with the user list, a CSV file with all* the tweets of said users and a dataset of the shared images and memes. For fun I tried … Continue reading About Iran and IRA Twitter datasets (for fun) – Part I
