Russian propaganda on social media during the 2022 invasion of Ukraine
Journal: EPJ Data Science
Year: 2023

Abstract The Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 was accompanied by practices of information warfare, yet existing evidence is largely anecdotal while large-scale empirical evidence is lacking. Here, we analyze the spread of pro-Russian support on social media. For this, we collected $N = 349{,}455$ <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"> <mml:mi>N</mml:mi> <mml:mo>=</mml:mo> <mml:mn>349</mml:mn> <mml:mo>,</mml:mo> <mml:mn>455</mml:mn> </mml:math> messages from Twitter