Seeing a lot of variations in my timeline on "these state-backed Hong Kong disinformation campaigns are so transparent and shoddy, look at these clearly fake Twitter accounts I found!" I don't dispute it, but I suggest Telegram is the place to be looking for the real stuff.
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Unfortunately, the people best-equipped to do this are often the ones who are most constrained by short-sighted academic ethics/privacy policies. Basically everyone can crawl all they want to except the researchers we most need to be looking at this stuff and contextualizing it
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All that to say, the lack of care in building Twitter bot armies likely says more about the relative importance of Twitter than the skills of the builders.
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