Dataset for "Who Let The Trolls Out? Towards Understanding State-Sponsored Trolls"

<p>This is the dataset used for the study &quot;Who Let The Trolls Out? Towards Understanding State-Sponsored Trolls&quot;. Savvas Zannettou, Tristan Caulfield, William Setzer, Michael Sirivianos, Gianluca Stringhini, Jeremy Blackburn. Arxiv, 2019. DOI:&nbsp;<a href="https://zenodo.org/record/2558560">10.5281/zenodo.2558560</a></p> <p>The dataset consists of the data released by Twitter on October 2018 for Russian and Iranian state-sponsored troll accounts, which is available at <a href="https://about.twitter.com/en_us/values/elections-integrity.html?fbclid=IwAR0ytC6Q_Jawg6ao57H4oWpA4D6wROvYGqDF0E-tI9hoCIEeX4M-BvXAT9s#data">https://about.twitter.com/en_us/values/elections-integrity.html#data</a> as well as intermediate data that we generated after processing the raw data.<br> For instance, we include trained Word2Vec and LDA models, the output of our influence estimation experiments via Hawkes Processes, and a lot of other data necessary to reproduce the results in the paper.<br> To use the provided data simply download the compressed file from &lt;URL&gt; and make sure that the uncompressed <code>data</code> folder is in the same directory as the IPython Notebook.</p> <p>The code used for this study can be found here:&nbsp;<a href="https://github.com/zsavvas/trolls_analysis">https://github.com/zsavvas/trolls_analysis</a></p> <p>Please cite our paper if&nbsp;any publication, of any form and kind results of you using this data:</p> <pre>@article{zannettou2018let, title={Who let the trolls out? towards understanding state-sponsored trolls}, author={Zannettou, Savvas and Caulfield, Tristan and Setzer, William and Sirivianos, Michael and Stringhini, Gianluca and Blackburn, Jeremy}, journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:1811.03130}, year={2018} }</pre>