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Russian Trolls Swarmed The Charlottesville March — Then Twitter Cracked Down

Data and R code underlying this Aug. 10, 2018 BuzzFeed News article on the reaction of Twitter trolls operated by Russia’s Internet Research Agency to the violence that erupted in Charlottesville, Virginia, in August 2017.

Methodology/Code

The code to process the data and 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.