Twitter Releases Datasets Covering Accounts That Were Removed in 4 Countries

Coordinated, state-backed activity was uncovered in Iran, Russia, Spain and Venezuela

Twitter released six additional datasets regarding accounts that were removed in four countries—Iran, Russia, Spain and Venezuela—for coordinated, state-backed activities.

The social network released two sizable datasets last October chronicling activity by Russia’s Internet Research Agency (1.24 gigabits of tweet information and 296 GB of media in 302 archives) and a set of accounts that potentially originated in Iran (168 megabits of tweet information and 65.7 GB of media in 52 archives).

Iran and the IRA figured prominently in the datasets Twitter made available Thursday, via its Elections Integrity hub.

Information was released on three sets of accounts from Iran, 4,779 in total, that Twitter believes were either associated with or backed by that country’s government.

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