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# Incident I00001: Blacktivists facebook group
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* **Summary:** Internet Research Agency created fake @blacktivists facebook group and twitter account.
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* **incident type**: incident
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* **Year started:** 2016
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* **Countries:** Russia , USA
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* **Found via:**
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* **Date added:** 2019-02-24
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Actor:
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Timeframe:
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Date:
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Presumed goals: “Russian-linked social media accounts saw racial tensions as something to be exploited in order to achieve the broader Russian goal of dividing Americans and creating chaos in U.S. politics during a campaign in which race repeatedly became an issue.”
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Method:
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Possibly linked: black lives matter facebook ads, targetted at Baltimore, Ferguson, Missouri https://money.cnn.com/2017/09/27/media/facebook-black-lives-matter-targeting/index.html?iid=EL
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Counters:
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Related incidents:
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* Txrebels facebook group
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* MuslimAmerica facebook group
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* Patriotus facebook group
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* SecuredBorders facebook group
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* Lgbtun facebook group
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* Black Matters facebook group
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References:
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* https://money.cnn.com/2017/09/28/media/blacktivist-russia-facebook-twitter/index.html
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* https://news.docnow.io/blacktivists-in-the-archive-71c807aa247e
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* https://www.thedailybeast.com/exclusive-secret-documents-from-russias-election-trolls-leak
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Datasets
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* https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1OZcRCZuz83bMpxVjpUYEALiS4OtKU-pTVtTveG_Ljs0/edit#gid=0 - from https://news.docnow.io/blacktivists-in-the-archive-71c807aa247e are the @blacktivists tweets that used the #blacklivesmatter hashtag
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* Jonathan Albright got the facebook text: https://data.world/d1gi/missing-fb-posts-w-share-stats/workspace/file?filename=Blacktivist+Facebook+Page+%28Text%29.pdf https://data.world/d1gi/missing-fb-posts-w-share-stats/workspace/file?filename=Blacktivist+Facebook+Page+%28Text%29-2.docx
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Notes
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First i read the cnn article, then did a twitter search to see if there are traces of the accounts left online. Only discussion about the IRA operation seem to be on Twitter. Also searched twitter for some of the text found later (in datasets) - nothing matches.
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Reading the docnow.io post showed some interesting behavours. Also that there was no central data repo for the blacktivists posts. Classic was the tweets being sent only in 8am-6pm Moscow time. Also interesting: the followers grew over time, but they grew and dropped friends (people they followed) in batches periodically - was this to avoid hitting limits?
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Reading the dailybeast.com article (on an IRA leak), it seems specific individuals were targetted. Thinking about the places we need to search: if it’s Russia, seems like we need to check twitter, facebook, youtube, reddit, tumblr, instagram, 9gag.
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Names some of the people contacted, e.g. Craig Carson, a Rochester, New York, attorney and civil rights activist; maybe Shanall LaRay Logan—who lives in Sacramento, California;
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