New Charts Show What The Russian Troll @TEN_GOP Account Was Tweeting This Summer

What does it all mean?

While its difficult to define @TEN_GOP's exact influence, the charts illustrate two important points:

- Regardless of the content of its tweets, the @TEN_GOP account chose to amplify politically divisive events to its legion of followers. And while it's unclear the exact motivations of the account, the charts show that @TEN_GOP increased the visibility of the events, which all contributed to a greater narrative of political unrest.

- @TEN_GOP is one part of a massive, complicated information war being waged across Twitter and the internet as a whole. Part of why the account's influence is so hard to calculate is because it is just one node in a complex and interconnected system. On its own, @TEN_GOP — like so many other automated or pro-Trump accounts — has limited reach. But in the aggregate, these many accounts play off of and amplify each other. Together, they help to create a fully fleshed narrative. In the case of these four examples, that narrative is one of political discord and instability.



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