Analysis of Strategy and Spread of Russia-sponsored Content in the US in 2017

Understand

The Russia-based Internet Research Agency (IRA) carried out a broad information campaign in the U.S.

• before and after the 2016 presidential election.
• The organization created an expansive set of internet properties: web domains, Facebook pages, and Twitter bots, which received traffic via purchased Facebook ads, tweets, and search engines indexing their domains.
• We investigate the scope of IRA activities in 2017, joining data from Facebook and Twitter with logs from the Internet Explorer 11 and Edge browsers and the Bing.com search engine.