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‘Russian Fake Tweets Visualized

‘Russian Fake Tweets Visualized

5 years ago
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https://towardsdatascience.com/russian-fake-tweets-visualized-6f73f767695

With the fervor of the Presidential election being skewed by Russian probing’s as well as the notorious Facebook / Cambridge Analytics scandal still topping daily domestic headlines, it became clear to us that “fake news” and Russian users are still prevalent, yet vague concepts. Who are these fake users disguising as? How are these fake users fooling people? How are they influencing people? Therefore, with our backgrounds in natural language processing, data visualization, and interest in the combination of technology and politics, it was only natural to examine the fake Russian user’s Tweet data with Python and Plotly. In particular, we analyzed.