Potemkin Pages & Personas: Assessing GRUOnline Operations, 2014-2019
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- Today the Stanford Internet Observatory published a white paper on GRU online influence operations from 2014 to 2019. The authors conducted this research at the request of the United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) and began with a data set consisting of social media posts provided to the Committee by Facebook. Facebook attributed the Pages and posts in this data set to the Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation (Главное управление Генерального штаба Вооружённых сил Российской Федерации), known as the GU, or by its prior acronym GRU. It removed the content in or before 2018. The data provided by Facebook to SSCI consisted of 28 folders, each corresponding to at least one unique Facebook Page. These Pages were in turn tied to discrete GRU-attributed operations. Some of these Pages and operations were significant; others were so minor they scarcely had any data associated with them at all.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Date created | November 12, 2019 |
| Date modified | December 5, 2022 |
| Publication date | August 15, 2022; November 12, 2019 |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | DiResta, Renée |
|---|---|
| Author | Grossman, Shelby |
Subjects
| Subject | takedown |
|---|---|
| Subject | Facebook (Firm) |
| Subject | Russia (Federation) |
| Genre | Text |
| Genre | Report |
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- DiResta, R. and Grossman, S. (2022). Potemkin Pages & Personas: Assessing GRUOnline Operations, 2014-2019. Stanford Digital Repository. Available at https://purl.stanford.edu/cv483mb5313
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