| Naira Davlashyan/AP Photo cybersecurity Russia's manipulation of Twitter was far vaster than believed.
Russia's infamous troll farm conducted a campaign on Twitter before the 2016 elections that was larger, more coordinated and more effective than previously known, research from cybersecurity firm Symantec out Wednesday concluded.
The company analyzed a massive data set Twitter released in October 2018 on nearly 3,900 accounts and 10 million tweets.
The research discovered that the average lag between account creation and first tweet was 177 days.
The most retweeted account garnered 6 million retweets, and less than 2,000 of those came from within the IRA-linked network of accounts.
The huge delay points to a lot of patient preparation, and the retweets indicate that a lot of unaffiliated Twitter users were amplifying the IRA's message.
"It was planned months in advance and the operators had the resources to create and manage a vast disinformation network.". »
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