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Heads up on this unreleased report that Yahoo News got advanced access to... there's no way to confirm where an administrator is located (not via OSINT data and not via CrowdTangle) and there's quite a huge caveat that their methods of ID'ing admins are not “an exact science”

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This claim also seems 1. wrong 2. impossible to confirm or falsify and 3. extremely irresponsible to put in any report I hesitate to even link to the article. A former State Department official is one of the authors of the (currently unreleased) report from the Soufan Center.

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Analysis was done by a *for-profit* agency called Limbik that uses proprietary tools/methods limbik.com/about.html They're "a full-service Data Studio" doing what they call "Content Science' to "create, develop and distribute video content." (sounds like digital marketing IDK)

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Oh the report has since been released - it's 45 pages

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"not an exact science" 🙄 news outlets need to really interrogate this methodology before repeating any claims made in this report

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Alexey Kovalyov

@Alexey__Kovalev

That said, 1) there are a few quite popular Q channels in Russian, on Vkontakte and Telegram 2) I did notice one Q-ish poster on Parler Lifeboat Telegram channel and found his English quite peculiar. I DMed him in Russian asking him if he was Russian and he responded with 🇧🇾emoji

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Alexey Kovalyov

@Alexey__Kovalev

And of course Q shit is all the rage among a certain segment of Russian American boomers

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It's also been an international movement from the early beginnings ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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And even if their proprietary methods correctly guess the language for a given post, that doesn't prove where the person who posted it is physically located nor does it prove foreign government influence of the poster. I feel like a monoglot must've developed this methodology.

10:04 PM · Apr 19, 2021

Alexey Kovalyov

@Alexey__Kovalev

Ah yes of course you're right. Valentina, a grandmother of three from Miami Beach ≠ Putin. Also, tired: Kremlin info ops targeting Trump base. Wired: Lukashenko ops targeting Trump base.

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