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How Russia’s Online Trolls Engaged Unsuspecting American Voters — And Sometimes Duped The Media

Data and R code underlying the orginal analysis reported in this Oct. 25, 2018 BuzzFeed News article on the success of Russian online trolls in disseminating their content. The article also describes findings from a study conducted by Microsoft Research.

Methodology/Code

The code to repeat the analysis can be found online here, and in the R Markdown document index.Rmd.

Questions/Feedback

Email the author Peter Aldhous at peter.aldhous@buzzfeed.com.