Data for "“THE RUSSIANS ARE HACKING MY BRAIN!” investigating Russia's internet research agency twitter tactics during the 2016 United States presidential campaign"
Published: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S074756321930202X Working: http://pwarren.people.clemson.edu/Linvill_etal_RHMB.pdf
Codebook
publish_date (str): Date of Troll Tweet author (str): Twitter handle of troll content (str): Text of tweet atype2 (str): Troll type, from Linvill & Warren (2020) Details: https://github.com/patrick-lee-warren/IRA-Troll-Types
Code One (numerical categorical):
- attack left
- support left
- attack right
- support right
- attack on media
- attack on civil institutions
- camo
- unknown
Code Two (numerical categorical): 0. Not ideological or partisan attack.
- attacked Clinton/Clinton campaign
- supported Clinton/Clinton campaign
- attacked Trump/Trump campaign
- supported Trump/Trump campaign
- not about either candidate
post_type (str): RETWEET, QUOTE_TWEET, (null)