Twitter download archive9/6/2023 ![]() We gathered the data using the Twitter API and a selection of hashtags chosen by a panel of academic experts. The Brexit referendum took place on the 23rd June 2016 and the UK voted to leave the European Union. We have been collating an archive of tweets related to Brexit since August 2015 and currently have over 70 million tweets. ![]() We found 3,485 tweets from 419 of the accounts listed as IRA accounts which specifically discussed Brexit and related topics such as the EU and migration. There is no equivalent officially published list of accounts from the IRA known to be active in the UK-EU Referendum debate (Brexit), but we found that the troll accounts active on the 2016 US Election also produced content related to Brexit. These accounts are known to have tweeted about the US 2016 Elections and the list was submitted as evidence by Twitter to the United States Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism. Twitter has identified 2,752 accounts that it believes are linked to the Internet Research Agency (IRA), a Russian company that creates online propaganda.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply.AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |