Vast archive of tweets reveals work of trolls backed by Russia and Iran

Two misinformation campaigns spent years sowing discord in US and elsewhere

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.

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