Twitter database reveals major misinformation campaigns on US elections and Brexit referendum
More than 10m tweets sent by state actors attempting to influence US politics have been released to the public, forming one of the largest archives of political misinformation ever collated.
The database reveals the staggering extent of two misinformation campaigns, which spent more than five years sowing discord in the US, and also had spillover effects in other national campaigns, including the British EU referendum.
Twitter announced on Wednesday that it was making the tweets available to researchers and the public, in order to support broader analysis of how misinformation campaigns operate.
