Russian Troll Tweets: Classification using BERT
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7 min readDec 1, 2019
The web brigades, also known as Russian Troll Bots, are state-sponsored anonymous political commentators. They often act by spreading politically divisive content through social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook. The web brigades have targeted events like the MH17 crash, the 2014 Ukraine conflict and the 2016 election in the US. Given that large scale propagation of politically divisive content can…
