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@timothyjgraham

2 years

I've been tracking accounts that 'liked' tweets from Russian government and embassy accounts. Sprayed a bit of sparkling water on the screen when I looked at the account creation dates

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Sorry to interrupt your Covid scrolling, but Arctic Siberia is recording 48 degree Celsius ground surface temperatures and if you hate pandemics you’re gonna really hate climate apocalypse

Arctic Circle is already recording 118 F degree days (and summer is just heating up)

On the same day last year, air temperatures in the area blazed past 100 degrees F for the first time in recorded history.

www.livescience.com

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Here's a wild idea - hear me out. What if instead of asking people for flood donations, the government just collected a huge chunk of everyone's money each payday and used it strategically

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Allegations that @elonmusk is forcing his engineers to boost his tweets are fully supported by the data. I did some analysis and here's the total tweet impressions per hour over the past week... Timelines match up perfectly with the reports

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@Botometer Some of these accounts are hilariously honest about themselves

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Ten thousand bot accounts couldn’t do the kind of damage to trust in electoral integrity that a verified catturd2 can do. The problem isn’t bots, ⁦ @elonmusk ⁩

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Just finished watching the series finale of @ExpanseOnPrime . Absolute masterpiece. How this was not the biggest show on TV boggles my mind—my life is forever better for having watched it

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3 years

Tim Smith has been spending the last hour trying to figure out how to politicize the earthquake, and this, gentle Twitter folk, is what he came up with

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3 years

Yeah, anonymity is the issue

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2 years

Suffice to say I'm currently running @Botometer on 16513 Kremlin liking accounts created in 2021 and 2022. Should be done in a day or so

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3 years

Folks messaged me about a new hashtag anti-Andrews campaign trending, so I collected over 67,000 tweets (past 7 days) containing the relevant hashtags and ran the data through a coordinated behaviour detection system A few insights, starting with a network map 🧵

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3 years

False information spread with the intent to deceive - there’s a word for that hmmm

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Australia has a disinformation problem

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2 years

Due to popular request, here's the full picture (not just from 2021 onwards)

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3 years

Honest question, why isn't NSW doing a state-wide lockdown? Yes I know there are complexities around it, but I can't make sense of what's going on anymore.

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The Twitter API may shut down any moment - if this is the last data I ever collect it'll totally be worth it

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2 years

I have no words for how immoral this is

Liberals accused of resorting to last-minute scare with text alert about illegal boat interception

Hours before the polls close, Australian voters across the country have received "news alert" texts stating an illegal boat has been intercepted and advising voters to "keep our borders secure by...

www.abc.net.au

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2 years

Well that's one way to get around bot detection tools - don't tweet anything but just smash that like button

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2 years

Everything about this suggests it's a stunt to attract attention and drive donations. Because everything Avi Yemini does is to attract attention and drive donations.

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4 years

OK, so the hashtag "Sack*Dan*Andrews" is trending in Australia right now... A brief thread: I collected 2,374 tweets containing this hashtag, sent by 959 accounts. Nearly a quarter of accounts (24%) were created in 2020

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“I apologise to Mr Rudd for any damage caused to him by my false statement” Disinformation of this kind doesn’t just harm one individual, it erodes our very sense of shared reality and trust in the institutions of democracy

Peta Credlin forced to apologise to Kevin Rudd over false data harvesting claims

Former PM says he has the resources to take on Murdoch media and its ‘bullies’ but ordinary Australians don’t

www.theguardian.com

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1 year

The daily tweet impressions since 1st January 2023 are even sadder and more worrying

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@timothyjgraham

2 years

So I ran @Botometer on 16513 pro-Russian accounts born in 2022. There's clearly a HUGE bot 🤖 network artificially hyping up ('liking') Russian government and embassy tweets This chart shows the number of accounts with a given bot score, where a higher score means more bot-like:

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@timothyjgraham

2 years

I've been tracking accounts that 'liked' tweets from Russian government and embassy accounts. Sprayed a bit of sparkling water on the screen when I looked at the account creation dates

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Anecdotally, I didn't believe @elonmusk 's claim about a decline in hate speech on this platform, so I ran a large-scale data analysis. As this graph shows, there is no evidence of a decline in tweets containing hate speech terms* over the past fortnight. 🧵[trigger warning]

Elon Musk

@elonmusk

2 years

Again, to be crystal clear, Twitter’s strong commitment to content moderation remains absolutely unchanged. In fact, we have actually seen hateful speech at times this week decline *below* our prior norms, contrary to what you may read in the press.

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What we’ve got here is a classic case of malinformation. One of the most dangerous and sinister modalities of propaganda—it’s fact based information that is weaponised and deployed to cause harm. In this case the biggest harm is to Australian democracy

Home Affairs confirms Scott Morrison pressured department to reveal boat interception on election...

A Department of Home Affairs report confirms the office of former prime minister Scott Morrison instructed the public service to reveal the interception of a suspected asylum seeker boat on election...

www.abc.net.au

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3 years

Vectors of political Covid spin: 1. “underlying health conditions” = rationalise death 2. blame the citizens = defer government accountability 3. report vaccination stats first = government is doing well 4. stop reporting detailed infection stats = makes (1) and (3) easier

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Imagine for a moment the pain and anger it would cause if a loved one passed away and then someone says to you, “oh but they had an underlying condition right?”. Now scale that up to the size of a state and broadcast it daily on national TV. No, that’s not OK and it needs to stop

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3 years

When all else fails, try QAnon’s “Save the Children” narrative

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4 years

The police at the #Brisbaneprotest were the kindest and most helpful I’ve ever seen. Offering face masks and hand sanitizer, and helping people and especially families find their way

Noely ⚡️🏐

@YaThinkN

4 years

Bloody Hell! As someone who grew up in Brisbane in the Joh era, this brings a tear to the eye 🥰

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4 years

It was truly a privilege to contribute to this story on #mediawatch tonight. Australia has a growing problem with information disorder and it affects everyone, regardless of creed or political stripe

PRGuy

@PRGuy17

4 years

Fascinating #MediaWatch tonight about the bots and trolls artificially driving up anti-Andrews sentiment ( #DictatorDan ) on social media. If you missed it, please watch it. Gives a great understanding of why there are a lot less critics of Andrews than it seems.

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Let's debunk this right here: the headline of this article is disinformation. There is no evidence in this article to attribute the fake signatories to @MrKRudd . It is false information spread with the intent to mislead readers. Here's why (thread):

Malcolm Turnbull

@TurnbullMalcolm

3 years

The headline is calculated to suggest the bots were inspired by Rudd - for those who go on to read the story that is clearly not so. Will the Oz assist the AFP with their inquiries into whether this conduct - designed to mislead Parliament - involved any offences?

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Three key takeaways: 1. Fringe activists are driving the anti-Andrews trending campaign, but it's a politician ( @CraigKellyMP ) and citizen journalist ( @OzraeliAvi ) who, with only a few tweets, turn the sparks into a roaring blaze that sustains itself thereafter

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2 years

Not analysis thread is up:

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@timothyjgraham

2 years

So I ran @Botometer on 16513 pro-Russian accounts born in 2022. There's clearly a HUGE bot 🤖 network artificially hyping up ('liking') Russian government and embassy tweets This chart shows the number of accounts with a given bot score, where a higher score means more bot-like:

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Oh don’t worry, we’ve got the receipts too.

Office of Kevin Rudd, 26th PM of Australia

@MrKRudd

3 years

Murdoch is quietly scrubbing incriminating Covid-19 misinformation videos from websites ahead of a grilling by the Senate on Friday. Dozens of videos have vanished with no correction or apology for spreading dangerous lies. But don’t worry; we have copies. #MurdochRoyalCommission

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Ah yes, the mobilisation stage of participatory disinformation, where the crowd flirt with violence as a political strategy. This is the last stop before the extremism point of no return, and sadly a logical consequence of endless ‘dictator’ and ‘oppression’ framing by elites

Masericha

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2 years

This was taken today at the Melbourne protest. I'm now genuinely scared of what these people are going to do. This is not ok.

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I’ll go one further, on reflection; this is one of the most dangerous false narratives in the election so far. It goes beyond party politics and into the very DNA of liberal democracy—this is a narrative that, if accepted, would eat democracy from the inside out

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2 years

Um, when did this happen?

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2 years

I’m not going to win any popularity awards here but please reconsider sharing Pauline Hanson’s new video series. It’s designed to exploit your brain and get you to amplify it

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At this point I'm scratching my head why @TwitterSafety isn't all over this. I've banging on for weeks how these Russian govt accounts are spreading disinformation on the hourly - and coordinating together, no less. Now we learn they're boosted by bots!

Russian government accounts are using a Twitter loophole to spread disinformation

Government Twitter accounts are dodging restrictions on state-backed media to churn out disinformation.

theconversation.com

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@MrsTheOldDays It’s the age old question! But money: the answer is money

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I've been coding up a new workflow for analysis of Twitter profiles. Thought I'd kick off Monday by showcasing some insights about @PRGuy17 , who everyone is talking about. I collected the entire timeline of 45k tweets. First off, we learn they're active about 14 hours a day:

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2 years

Just a gentle reminder of the kind of Covid misinformation Elon Musk has spread using his free speech on this platform

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@timothyjgraham

4 years

To clarify: the issue here isn't about politics, and it's not about bots or trolls. What's most interesting is that a small group of actors, many of them recently created and anonymous, can get a hashtag to trend nationally. This is a double edged sword for democracy.

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3 years

#QandA just pumped about 1000 megatons of oxygen into anti-lockdown and anti-mask fringe groups

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2 years

The defamation case is deeply consequential for political discourse in Australia - I am troubled by it for various reasons, but let's see how it plays out over the coming weeks and months. Thanks for your time as always

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3 years

The network shows large-scale, loosely coordinated behaviour by a hard core of campaigners who spam the hashtags repeatedly together, all day long. BUT it's @CraigKellyMP and @OzraeliAvi who jump onto the fringe activity and turn it into a roaring blaze with two viral tweets

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3 years

Just to be clear: to date there is little evidence that bots play any significant role in the #IStandWithDan hashtag public Full paper here:

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2 years

For anyone interested in studying YouTube, the ever amazing @ObservatoryTeam have released a new toolkit to collect YouTube video metadata and comments

GitHub - QUT-Digital-Observatory/youte: Command-line utility to help researchers collect video...

Command-line utility to help researchers collect video metadata from Youtube API - QUT-Digital-Observatory/youte

github.com

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The most active anti-Andrews hashtag campaigner is a newborn anonymous account, created just over 2 weeks ago. They've tweeted 311 times per day or 12 times per hour, and only tweet about Andrews and the Vic lockdown

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2 years

False information spread with the intent to mislead voter — hmm now there is a word for that…

David Milner

@DaveMilbo

2 years

Hey @AusElectoralCom , love your work on the whole elections thing. Question! Will voting for a "teal" independent, or even The Greens, undermine democracy? I've seen that claimed a bunch and would hate to be responsible for the end of free elections in Australia. Cheers.

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Sorry to be that person but this image isn’t doctored. In some ways it’s even more insidious and much more common... an out-of-context photo from half a decade ago, deployed with the intent to deceive

📣Liz Morgan

@LyrebirdMorgan

3 years

100% fake news. Doctored photographs. No credit. Rubbish reporting. Once I was so proud to work for the SMH. Today I’d rather go to a food bank than sell my soul.

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This may in fact be the funniest thing I’ve ever seen

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@timothyjgraham

7 months

In all my years I’ve never seen a political scare campaign cut through the truth like it’s cut through these four basic facts about the #VoiceToParliament referendum. It doesn’t even just undermine liberal democracy—it undermines our shared sense of reality

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3 years

Well, it's finally out! Our comprehensive analysis of #IStandWithDan , #DictatorDan and #DanLiedPeopleDied . Some key findings (thread below): 1) #IStandWithDan amassed 2.5 times as many as tweets as the anti-Andrews hashtags

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@timothyjgraham

1 year

Here’s the full quote, which is the opposite of what Elon thinks it means. Very close to madness…

Elon Musk

@elonmusk

1 year

The people have spoken. Trump will be reinstated. Vox Populi, Vox Dei.

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@Twitter clearly has a Herculean problem on its hands to moderate Russian disinformation at scale. But honestly - these bot networks are hiding in plain sight. They're artificially boosting false information straight from the horse's mouth. Well, here we are I guess.

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2 years

Goes without saying: if anyone would like tweet and/or account IDs, please DM me. I can also share code (Python) and describe workflow so the findings can be reproduced. thanks for your time - let's fight Putin in the information space.

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@timothyjgraham

2 years

Good, now stick a “State-affiliated media” label on it too

PRGuy

@PRGuy17

2 years

NEWS YOU CAN'T TRUST: Twitter has stripped News Corp's The Australian of its verified 'blue tick' status. The move follows the masthead's fervent efforts to support Scott Morrison's re-election bid with a barrage of false and misleading content. #auspol

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Finally, data was collected using the 'twarc2' toolkit and the coordination networks constructed using a custom-built software that we've made freely available! If anyone wants to reproduce this and needs tweet IDs, please DM me.

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@timothyjgraham

3 years

I am completely humbled and really cannot find the words to express my gratitude for being awarded a DECRA grant. None of this is possible without all the support, mentoring and encouragement I’ve received, during what has and continues to be a difficult personal time (cont.).

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@timothyjgraham

3 years

OK, I want to run an experiment. If you’ve been blocked by a politician, please reply with their username below. I’ll construct a network tomorrow to gain some insights into what is otherwise a black box in terms of what I can get from the Twitter API. I’ll start:

Tim Graham 🌻

@timothyjgraham

3 years

ICYMI - brilliant piece by @JennaPrice about the problems with politicians who mass block citizens. Glad to contribute my own thoughts to this growing issue

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I don’t know why but I can’t stop laughing at this exchange

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@timothyjgraham

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Schrödinger’s Dan Andrews: simultaneously a dictator for the past 18 months and about to become a dictator

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@timothyjgraham

3 years

Great day for deceiving the public with intentionally misleading headlines

Sharri Markson

@SharriMarkson

3 years

Not a great week for journalism at the ABC.

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@timothyjgraham

2 years

It takes a while to run @Botometer on over 10,000 Twitter accounts, but the results are in... This network shows strong evidence that coordinated armies of bot-like accounts are responsible for getting the "IStandWithP*tin" hashtag trending.

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@timothyjgraham

2 years

Research is spending two days reading eight journal articles and a quarter of a book to get a paragraph correct, only to find out you need to delete it

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3. This little case study has many parallels with previous partisan hashtag campaigns, echoing research I've previously conducted with colleagues at @qutdmrc

#IStandWithDan, #DictatorDan, #DanLiedPeopleDied: 397,000 tweets reveal the culprits behind a...

It only took a relatively small number of Twitter accounts to get hashtags #DictatorDan and #DanLiedPeopleDied trending. And “bots” weren’t really a part of the story.

theconversation.com

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@timothyjgraham

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For the record it’s undermining propaganda - classic stuff. It appeals to normative democratic ideals but in doing so actually erodes them — of course voting for a legitimate candidate isn’t anti-democratic and/or nihilistic

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@timothyjgraham

3 years

A pro-Andrews counter-attack started almost immediately, orchestrated by @PRGuy17 , in an effort to hijack the hashtags and drown out the anti-Andrews discourse

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@timothyjgraham

3 years

The true costs of misinformation

David Estcourt

@davidestcourt

3 years

Protesters break through the police line, an officer gets assaulted and trampled by demonstrators, people are screaming and covered in capsicum spray @theage

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@timothyjgraham

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I went through all 74 quote tweets and only 2 are pro-Canavan. He’s trolling y’all and every engagement feeds it

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@timothyjgraham

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This is a technique of disinformation. Whether the questions are answered or not, partially or completely, the damage is done and the wedge driven deeper. Nobody benefits from this.

Benita Kolovos

@benitakolovos

3 years

“I asked 12 simple questions, the government has selectively chosen to answer five of them. My view is they should get on and answer the other seven,” Shadow Treasurer Louise Staley says of her media release regarding Premier Daniel Andrews’ fall.

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Check out @deadtheorist and my big(ish) data study of the anti vaccination movement on Facebook, featuring computational tools built in the @vosonlab at @ANU_SOCY ! Cc @RobAckland @darren_halpin @gavin_jd_smith @Jenny_L_Davis

Mapping the anti-vaccination movement on Facebook

Over the past decade, anti-vaccination rhetoric has become part of the mainstream discourse regarding the public health practice of childhood vaccination. These utilise social media to foster onlin...

www.tandfonline.com

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@timothyjgraham

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2. There's an information war happening and a battle ensued between pro-Andrews campaigners (led by @PRGuy17 ) who routinely hijack such hashtags, however here they appear to be drowned out by the coordinated behaviour of the anti-Andrews campaigners

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@timothyjgraham

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The top 20 accounts posted 25% (n=593) of tweets. Yes that's right, just 20 Twitter accounts make up *one quarter* of the volume of this hashtag, which is now appearing on everyone's screens via the trending list.

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Me and my son testing our 2021 Halloween costumes

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3 years

See also the excellent work by @DrCrazyThoughts

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3 years

Quick clarification - it appears that @CraigKellyMP was more active than I noted in this dataset, as @PRGuy17 has documented here. However, his activity volume pales in comparison to the fringe accounts, although gets far far more engagement

PRGuy

@PRGuy17

3 years

TWITTER TANTRUM: Fringe far right MP Craig Kelly has been mocked for posting a barrage of increasingly hysterical tweets about Dan Andrews in the aftermath of Gladys Berejiklian's resignation. One commentator has quipped "it's old man yells at Dan" #auspol

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In the interest of scientific rigour and transparency, I provide the code for data collection, along with a CSV file containing the tweet IDs of the dataset I initially collected for this analysis.

GitHub - timothyjgraham/sackdanandrews_hashtag_analysis

Contribute to timothyjgraham/sackdanandrews_hashtag_analysis development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

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2 years

*bot 🤦🏽‍♂️

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3 years

Honestly, I can’t believe Twitter still doesn’t have a ‘misinformation’ category for reporting tweets

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@timothyjgraham

3 years

Off the back of this tweet, I would like to raise awareness about the #UnderlyingDoesntJustifyDying campaign. Thank you to @jennibeattie for sharing this with me and please consider amplifying that hashtag because “underlying health conditions” never justifies dying from COVID-19

Tim Graham 🌻

@timothyjgraham

3 years

Vectors of political Covid spin: 1. “underlying health conditions” = rationalise death 2. blame the citizens = defer government accountability 3. report vaccination stats first = government is doing well 4. stop reporting detailed infection stats = makes (1) and (3) easier

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@PRGuy17 that must be a record 😆 Folks, a master class in hashtag activism. By my count, this hashtag went from newborn to #1 on the Australian trending list in a bit over 30 minutes

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@timothyjgraham

4 years

Currently undertaking an analysis of suspicious activity around the #IStandWithDan hashtag. Watch this space 👀

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@timothyjgraham

3 years

ICYMI - brilliant piece by @JennaPrice about the problems with politicians who mass block citizens. Glad to contribute my own thoughts to this growing issue

It's one rule for me, another for thee with Tudge

If our Education Minister was really keen to protect academic freedom, he would address the extreme job insecurity...

www.canberratimes.com.au

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@timothyjgraham

3 years

Analysis of 7,844 tweets shows overwhelming negative sentiment* towards @M_McCormackMP after his comparison of #BlackLivesMatter protests to the #CapitolRiots

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@timothyjgraham

3 years

But the sustained anti-Andrews hashtag activism (see network above), super-fuelled by a handful of viral tweets by @OzraeliAvi and @CraigKellyMP , ultimately overpowers the pro-Andrews activists The top 20 accounts sent 8% of all tweets:

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@timothyjgraham

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Thank you to everyone for sharing their experiences of being blocked by Australian politicians on Twitter... the results are in! Here's a network map showing which Australian politicians are the biggest blockers. The nodes are users and a link means user A blocks user B 🧵

Tim Graham 🌻

@timothyjgraham

3 years

OK, I want to run an experiment. If you’ve been blocked by a politician, please reply with their username below. I’ll construct a network tomorrow to gain some insights into what is otherwise a black box in terms of what I can get from the Twitter API. I’ll start:

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Tim Graham 🌻

@timothyjgraham

2 years

... it has become such a divisive figure in #auspol and increasingly gained attention outside of the platform, too. Its success and impact undercuts the business model of people like Avi Yemini who weaponise outrage and convert fear and doubt into clout and donations.

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Tim Graham 🌻

@timothyjgraham

2 years

Gentle Twitterfolk, I submit for your consideration the most badly aged tweet of all time

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Tim Graham 🌻

@timothyjgraham

3 years

You either punch a horse or live long enough to swallow its deworming medication

Alleged horse puncher isolated in prison after refusing COVID test, court told

A man accused of punching a police horse during Saturday's anti-lockdown protest in Sydney will remain behind bars after a court hears he is refusing a COVID-19 test in prison.

www.abc.net.au

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Tim Graham 🌻

@timothyjgraham

3 years

Hmm, so now Matt Canavan is retweeting accounts that attract QAnon engagement

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Tim Graham 🌻

@timothyjgraham

2 years

The campaign slogan “Keep Josh” just keeps reminding me of how in political theory the plutocrat just wants power for its own sake—not policy, not public interest, just keep me in power because I’m powerful and rich

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Tim Graham 🌻

@timothyjgraham

2 years

Notice the big spike at 1.0? That's 714 accounts that have a perfect bot score, so they are almost certainly automated. The above chart uses the 'universal' Completely Automated Probability (CAP) score. So basically a CAP score of 1 means the @Botometer model is certain

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Tim Graham 🌻

@timothyjgraham

2 years

... social justice issues and supporting Victorians on Twitter through unbearably difficult times during the COVID-19 pandemic. Clearly the account is partisan in its support for Labor and has a knack for harnessing and amplifying outrage culture. I suspect perhaps this is why...

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Tim Graham 🌻

@timothyjgraham

3 years

Sorry, but I feel like I have a duty to point out that discussions around Morrison and QAnon are at risk of starting to look like conspiracy theorising Let’s see what @4corners reveals, but always check sources and stay mindful of your biases when consuming and sharing content

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Tim Graham 🌻

@timothyjgraham

3 years

Every few weeks I’ll be scoping out spikes in keywords on Australian Twitter to discover that, yes, @ScottMorrisonMP ’s cooking has been politicised again

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Tim Graham 🌻

@timothyjgraham

2 years

A lot of rhetoric about the mixed bag of people in these protests. That may be true, but “the standard you walk past is the standard you set”. There are neo-nazis and far right extremists leading and involved in these crowds—some have been charged by counter-terrorism officials

Brent Hodgson

@BrentHodgson

2 years

Let's talk about the protesters and "reasonable concerns". Where do you draw the line between a few nutcases in a crowd, and being part of the crowd itself? Where do you separate the people with reasonable concerns from the extremists? 🧵

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Tim Graham 🌻

@timothyjgraham

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... have resonated strongly with a large segment of the #auspol community, even if they've attracted criticism, abuse, and now of course a defamation lawsuit. I don't know who the owner is, but it's easy to see they've sacrificed an enormous amount of time advocating for...

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Tim Graham 🌻

@timothyjgraham

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@JuliaLeeThorp @page_eco Absolutely - I will post the full time range shortly

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