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<blockquote data-quote="Prorootect" data-source="post: 855491" data-attributes="member: 905"><p><u>How Russia May Have Used Twitter to Help Seize Crimea </u></p><p>- By University of California - San Diego January 23, 2020</p><p></p><p><img src="https://scitechdaily.com/images/Online-Communication-Concept-777x518.jpg" alt="Online Communication Concept" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p>Online discourse by users of social media suggests it can be used by governments as a source of military intelligence to estimate prospective casualties and costs incurred from occupying foreign territories.</p><p></p><p><strong>New research shows real-time social media data may have been a source of military intelligence for the Kremlin and potentially other governments.</strong></p><p></p><p></p><p>Online discourse by users of social media can provide important clues about the political dispositions of communities. New research suggests it can even be used by governments as a source of military intelligence to estimate prospective casualties and costs incurred from occupying foreign territories.</p><p></p><p>In the study, the data from Twitter was collected in real time beginning in August 2013. The researchers compiled tweets with GPS coordinates of social media users who had their locations services turned on. Though data was collected from all over the world (roughly 940,000,000 tweets), the researchers filtered the data by time (the 188 days from February to August 2014), location (Ukraine) and language (Russian).</p><p>“We were most interested in Russian-speakers in Ukraine because that is the population which might have considered sedition,” said Driscoll.</p><p>The researchers then created two dictionaries to identify key words associated with the two polarized and competing narratives of the news cycles at the time....</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>-read more: on scitechdaily.com: <a href="https://scitechdaily.com/how-russia-may-have-used-twitter-to-help-seize-crimea/" target="_blank">How Russia May Have Used Twitter to Help Seize Crimea</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Prorootect, post: 855491, member: 905"] [U]How Russia May Have Used Twitter to Help Seize Crimea [/U] - By University of California - San Diego January 23, 2020 [IMG alt="Online Communication Concept"]https://scitechdaily.com/images/Online-Communication-Concept-777x518.jpg[/IMG] Online discourse by users of social media suggests it can be used by governments as a source of military intelligence to estimate prospective casualties and costs incurred from occupying foreign territories. [B]New research shows real-time social media data may have been a source of military intelligence for the Kremlin and potentially other governments.[/B] Online discourse by users of social media can provide important clues about the political dispositions of communities. New research suggests it can even be used by governments as a source of military intelligence to estimate prospective casualties and costs incurred from occupying foreign territories. In the study, the data from Twitter was collected in real time beginning in August 2013. The researchers compiled tweets with GPS coordinates of social media users who had their locations services turned on. Though data was collected from all over the world (roughly 940,000,000 tweets), the researchers filtered the data by time (the 188 days from February to August 2014), location (Ukraine) and language (Russian). “We were most interested in Russian-speakers in Ukraine because that is the population which might have considered sedition,” said Driscoll. The researchers then created two dictionaries to identify key words associated with the two polarized and competing narratives of the news cycles at the time.... -read more: on scitechdaily.com: [URL='https://scitechdaily.com/how-russia-may-have-used-twitter-to-help-seize-crimea/']How Russia May Have Used Twitter to Help Seize Crimea[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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