Coverage of a Disinformation Operation Against 2019 EU Parliamentary Elections

This visualization shows that, by-and-large, each tweet received engagement from a separate group of users, with only slight overlap – i.e. each published tweet received engagement (retweets) from a separate, unique group of accounts. NewsCompact and PartisanDE were both in the top three most engaged accounts in the EU election conversation space on Twitter two weeks ago. Since both accounts post content that is far-right, racist, and highly partisan, one has to wonder what effect they’ve had on the EU election conversation space on Twitter over the past few weeks.

Source: labsblog.f-secure.com