theprint.in/tech/60-80-of-twitter-accounts-posting-on-russia-ukraine-war-bots-90-pro-ukraine-finds-new-study/1114878

According to the researchers, 90.16 per cent of the accounts tweeting on the Russia-Ukraine war were “pro Ukraine” and only 6.80 per cent were “pro Russia”. “Balanced accounts” — those which showed mixed behaviour — comprised 3.04 per cent.

that’s that democracy s***

More interested in percentages by language. Twitter is mainly English (?) so one would expect higher proportion of propaganda being for English speakers (the West)

What languages exactly?

I don't think the results for Ukrainian or Russian would surprise anybody

Probably not but I'd still like to see them

And english is used by a lot more people than just english speaking countries as well btw, especially when it comes to bots directed at english speaking audiences

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what makes an account a bot how are they measuring that?

Twitters already able to track automated accounts

I guess this makes the invasion of a country and killing innocent people ok

Bot detection software called Botometer

shocker

You think so?

Must be

would a fan account be a bot? or are we assuming they can tell what accounts are actually bot but they choose to leave them up

No one has ever once said this when pointing out the hypocrisies and lies surrounding this conflict

In fact only a certain group of people has used this logic. “Nazi militias/indiscriminate flooding of arms with zero accountability/faking nuclear disasters/racism/setting up machine gun nests in hospitals and schools/trying to drag everyone into WW3/language laws/denying the right to travel…are all okay because Ukraine is being invaded”

Mostly has to do with content similarity, especially between things like text, time of tweeting, and username / display name patterning

Fam accounts posting about the same thing at the same time won’t get them flagged if the content itself is different or the caption is different

I guess this makes the invasion of a country and killing innocent people ok

Nato working overtime

Does this include accounts that say things like “this war is about NATO expansion” or “more of my tax dollars just went to Ukraine?”

Luckily ktt2 still has Russian bots