This is a multi-part analysis of China's state disinformation campaign against the Hong Kong protest movement, based on information released by Twitter on Aug 19 and Sept 2o. In its press release, Twitter said the tweets were from "a significant state-backed information operation focused on the situation in Hong Kong, specifically the protest movement and their calls for political change."
This builds on my earlier project on uncovering disinformation campaigns on Twitter: http://bit.ly/StateTrolls
Download the original CSV files from Twitter.
- notebook1.0: A quick and dirty first exploratory look at the data.
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notebook2.0: "De-layering" and visulisation of English tweets by Chinese state trolls
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notebook2.1: Scattertext plot of English tweets by Chinese state trolls
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notebook2.2: "De-layering" and visulisation of Chinese language tweets by Chinese state trolls
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notebook2.3: Scattertext plot of English tweets by Chinese state trolls
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Folder for interactive Scattertext charts in noteook2.1 and 2.3: Download these charts if you'd rather not re-run the notebooks
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notebook3.0: this notebook focuses on a sharp spike in activity and fake account creation from May to end-July 2019. This "surge" is among the most interesting findings in the second tranche of Chinese state troll tweets released by Twitter on Sept 20 2019.
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charts for notebook3.0: The interactive Plotly charts and Scattertext plots are here if you'd rather not re-run the notebook