A detailed look at #FireMcMaster says the "Russian trolls" identified by Hamilton68 are just... alt-right peoplehttps://medium.com/@DFRLab/firemcmaster-explained-9e9018e507c2 …
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I don't see why this is so hard to understand. The dashboard and documentation repeatedly note that the network amplifies third parties.
Based on the types of accounts the dashboard apparently catalogs, you are tracking "unknowing" "amplifiers" who are themselves third parties
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The controversy, it seems to me, is that your coding criteria inevitably mean you're conflating alt Americans and hostile foreign actors.
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If you revealed the list, maybe some of the individuals (how many make up the 600? You won't say) would change their behavior, but...
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But you'd also get U.S. Twitter users screaming that they're not tweeting what they tweet because of Russian active measures, as you suggest
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Also the central conceit of the dashboard's usefulness is that Russian Twitter "amplification" matters. This is a contentious claim, I think
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