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Joined November 2020
SMAT is crawling the “Russian Facebook”, VKontakte, to ID war criminals. So far we found: 9/10 of the “Despicable 10”, the un-named Bucha truck driver, and 700 matches total. Here we name names and share methods and findings. 🧵….. blog.smat-app.com/p/vk-war-c…
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🇺🇦Wondering how online data can be used to better understand the war in Ukraine? Start '22 startup @SMAT_app analyzes #Telegram data to generate a clearer picture of what's going on ⬇️
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Investigating the online operations surrounding the term "cargo 200" in the invasion of Ukraine. Featuring a sneak peak of SMATs network graphing capability. blog.smat-app.com/p/cargo-20…
SMAT is truly indispensable for tracking The Bullshit as it moves around conservative social media. An A+ resource just got better.
lots of new additions to SMAT - Bitchute, MeWe, and WiMKiN are all available! run searches, perform aggregations and query content via our free tools and API. this brings our data set total up to 11! smat-app.com/
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An excellent expose of far-right alt-tech media platform Gettr by @SMAT_app. blog.smat-app.com/p/go-gettr…
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What does a right wing conspiracist, fugitive, and billionaire have to do with a cryptocurrency scheme? Find out in our new investigation of the infamous pro-Trump Gettr platform blog.smat-app.com/p/go-gettr…
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We used public datasets from @decodeurs, @CofactThailand and @securedemocracy, and were inspired by the analysis of @raymserrato, and the ideas of @SMAT_app. The CIB detection tree is an ongoing project and we would love your comments and ideas on how to improve it. 15/15
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Over the past month @stanfordio, I and @elegant_wallaby took a deep dive into GETTR, a new alt-network that launched in July. Today, we released a comprehensive report on the platform's first month. A brief thread about our (now open source!) tooling... cyber.fsi.stanford.edu/io/ne…
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Yes, Gab, care to comment on your shitty, shitty business & its wildly incompetent leader? No? OK, just thought I’d ask.
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For example, did you know that they raised around $1.7 million dollars from investors, $6 million through an ICO (withdrawn), and that they're hemorrhaging investor money? Their behavior is kind of irresponsible to shareholders don't ya think?
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SMAT is an *incredibly* useful tool if you’re trying to track how a particular idea spread through social media platforms. Now they’re also just like “Oh, and we’ve compiled a BUNCH of publicly available info on Gab’s financial state in one central place, nbd.” 😍😍😍😍😍
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For example, did you know that they raised around $1.7 million dollars from investors, $6 million through an ICO (withdrawn), and that they're hemorrhaging investor money? Their behavior is kind of irresponsible to shareholders don't ya think?
New initiative to debunk online misinformation, hate speech and conspiracy theories launched today in New Zealand Big news! :) cc @mandylibrary @SMAT_app tohatoha.org.nz/2021/06/new-…
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Cool study by @DFRLab using @SMAT_app and other cool site metrics tools medium.com/dfrlab/qanons-hal…
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I did a mini-workshop yesterday on text analysis w/ political speech and social media data. Here's the #rstats script and data. github.com/aleszu/text-minin…
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Tohatoha’s oral evidence to the Justice Committee outlines genuine threats to New Zealand’s democratic processes from ‘malicious actors’ tohatoha.org.nz/2021/05/data… cc @SMAT_app @mandylibrary @InternetNZ #misinformation
Watch from 15:20 to see our CEO @mandylibrary present the results of our joint report with @SMAT_app
Yesterday (6 May) our Senior Policy Advisors, James Ting-Edwards and Nicola Brown were at the Select Committee to talk about misinformation and elections, and highlight the great work of our partner org @TohatohaNZ. Watch from 32:05 for InternetNZ: fb.watch/5k6QfCZyLm/
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🎉 SMAT just reached 10 backers! Thank you @elegant_wallaby, @alannairving, @opencollect, @LauBenedict, +6 🙌 Support them too! opencollective.com/smat