Dataset for "Who Let The Trolls Out? Towards Understanding State-Sponsored Trolls"

This is the dataset used for the study "Who Let The Trolls Out? Towards Understanding State-Sponsored Trolls". Savvas Zannettou, Tristan Caulfield, William Setzer, Michael Sirivianos, Gianluca Stringhini, Jeremy Blackburn. Arxiv, 2019. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.2558560 The dataset consists of the data released by Twitter on October 2018 for Russian and Iranian state-sponsored troll accounts, which is available at https://about.twitter.com/en_us/values/elections-integrity.html#data as well as intermediate data that we generated after processing the raw data.<br> For instance, we include trained Word2Vec and LDA models, the output of our influence estimation experiments via Hawkes Processes, and a lot of other data necessary to reproduce the results in the paper.<br> To use the provided data simply download the compressed file from &lt;URL&gt; and make sure that the uncompressed <code>data</code> folder is in the same directory as the IPython Notebook. The code used for this study can be found here: https://github.com/zsavvas/trolls_analysis Please cite our paper if any publication, of any form and kind results of you using this data: <pre>@article{zannettou2018let, title={Who let the trolls out? towards understanding state-sponsored trolls}, author={Zannettou, Savvas and Caulfield, Tristan and Setzer, William and Sirivianos, Michael and Stringhini, Gianluca and Blackburn, Jeremy}, journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:1811.03130}, year={2018} }</pre>