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To complement @DFRLab @benimmo‘s work, our study on narratives suggesting #Salisbury #Skripal #Novichok attack was carried out by UK /#MI6. Here’s what we found:
THREAD 1) by 10pm, out of ~300k tweets, 2236 accounts tweeted 3254 tweets/rts of narrative, No1 was @RussianEmbassy pic.twitter.com/15l1v3VEHK— EU DisinfoLab🇪🇺 (@DisinfoEU) 14 марта 2018 г.
THREAD 2) Top tweets within the “UK behind poisoning” narrative (ordered), growth pattern, top hashtags and top phrases used #Skripal #MI6 #SergeiSkripal #Russia #espionage #Russophobia #Novichok #Salisbury pic.twitter.com/CBPJNLCT33
— EU DisinfoLab🇪🇺 (@DisinfoEU) 14 марта 2018 г.
THREAD 3) Accounts identified spreading #Russia #disinformation & #propaganda, converging in our 4 studies on pro-Russia UK narratives (@BreitbartLondon & @RTUKnews influence, #SyriaHoax & #Skripal #Salisbury “UK gov behind attack”). Likely trolls &some evident bots (400k tweets) pic.twitter.com/HGIVkQgGIc
— EU DisinfoLab🇪🇺 (@DisinfoEU) 14 марта 2018 г.
THREAD 4) Preliminary relationship analysis, showing ecosystem involved in the narrative. For now only 750/2236 accounts mapped.
(some accts like Trump or May shown as they were mentioned a lot, NOT because they tweeted)
Orange=RU trolls
Green=Labour
Blue=US
Pink=mass followers pic.twitter.com/9JD0gD18ck— EU DisinfoLab🇪🇺 (@DisinfoEU) 14 марта 2018 г.
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