Sure, the tool needs greater transparency. Just pointing out that Russian trolls may indeed be using a hashtag like #firehannity
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or they may be not. and even if they are, the tool doesn't tell us for what reason or purpose. meanwhile, i see lots of ppl...
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... taking one of the trending hashtags from the tool and claiming "see, russia wants to push
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when, that, as in the case of
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so, at the very least, i think the authors need to do a better job of explaining to their tool's users / audience, what the data...
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... does and does _not_ mean. and the overall blackbox nature / unclear methodology doesn't exactly help either.
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this thing may well be useful. it's clear, however, that ppl don't understand the the output, and are making misguided claims on that basis.
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I've taken a look at it several times. Without knowing their "inclusion criteria" doesn't seem particularly useful yep
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They'll purge the leftist "Russian-influenced" accounts soon to clean up their results.
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yeah, there's that too. Plus, I'm sure you looked at the board members?
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Not ... that closely. I blame jet lag and this crud biological warfare the Aussies sent me home with.
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