New website aims to track Russian-backed propaganda on Twitter
It is part of a growing effort to diminish Moscow's ability to meddle in future elections in the US and Europe
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A WEBSITE launched on Wednesday seeks to track Russian-supported propaganda and disinformation on Twitter, part of a growing non-governmental effort to diminish Moscow's ability to meddle in future elections in the United States and Europe.
The "Hamilton 68" dashboard (http://dashboard.securingdemocracy.org/) was built by researchers working with the Alliance for Securing Democracy, a bipartisan, transatlantic project set up last month to counter Russian disinformation campaigns.
The website, supported by the German Marshall Fund, displays a "near real-time" analysis of English-language tweets from a pool of 600 Twitter accounts that analysts identified as users that spread Russian propaga…
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