Camille Francois remembers the day she learned that the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence was granting her the extraordinary opportunity to research the extent of Russia’s influence operations during 2016 presidential election campaign.
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“Our CEO [John Kelly]… said, ‘Hey Cam, what would you say if we had access to the actual data and data traces from the Russian troll farm activity on Google, on Twitter, and on Facebook, and on Instagram and we could really look into what exactly happened?” said Francois, chief innovation officer at New York-based social network mapping and analysis company Graphika, in a podcast interview with SC Media. “And I… thought he was pulling my leg, and I was like, ‘Yeah, John, that would be great! Bring over the ‘magic data box!’”
But it was no joke. The team at Graphika and its research partner the Oxford Internet Institute would spend the next seven months researching the data and in December of 2018 released a report on their findings. Some of their discoveries ultimately found their ..
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