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State-Backed Disinformation Operations

Date	Country	Msg Info	Media	Accounts	Reports
2021-12	China	2.57 MB	4.61 GB	112
2021-12	China	3.46 MB	2.3 GB	2048
2021-12	Russia IRA	2.48 MB	3.31 GB	16
2021-12	Russia	1.11 MB	1.65 GB	50
2021-12	Tanzania	1.58 MB	(1.81 GB	268
2021-12	Uganda	62.14 MB	19.92 GB	418
2021-12	Venezuela	82.07 MB	20.18 GB	277
2021-12	Mexico	2.49 MB	2.84 GB	276
2021-02	Russia IRA	36.6 MB	2.6 GB	31
2021-02	Russia GRU	14.3 MB	1.8 GB	69
2021-02	Armenia	46.7 KB	1.2 GB	35
2021-02	Iran	285.2 MB	32.4 GB	238
2020-09	Saudi Arabia	24 KB	5.8 GB	33
2020-09	Cuba	666 MB	49.2 GB	526
2020-09	Thailand	2.3 MB	2.9 GB	926
2020-09	Russia	180 KB	10 MB	5
2020-09	Iran	292 KB	16.7 GB	104
2020-05	Russia	353 MB	108 GB	1,152
2020-05	Turkey	5 GB	821 GB	7,340
2020-05	China	73.2 MB	31 GB	23,750
2020-03	Ghana / Nigeria	27 MB	17 GB	71	CNN
2020-02	Serbia	5.7 GB	2.3 TB	8,558
2020-02	SA / UAE / Egypt	4.2 GB	977 GB	5,350
2020-02	Indonesia	207 MB	78 GB	795
2020-02	Honduras	137 MB	75 GB	2,541
2020-02	Egypt	1 GB	575 TB	2,541
2019-10	Saudi Arabia	4.3 GB	1.3 TB	5,929
2019-06	China	913 MB	604 GB	4,301
2019-06	China	169 MB	40 GB	196
2019-06	China	158 MB	85 GB	744
2019-06	Venezuela	64 MB	24 GB	33
2019-06	Russia	260 KB	72 MB	4
2019-06	Iran	46 MB	55 GB	2,865
2019-06	Iran	318 MB	183 GB	248
2019-06	Iran	316 MB	258 GB	1,666
2019-06	Catalonia	1.5 MB	2.74 GB	130
2019-04	Spain	7 MB	16 GB	259
2019-04	Ecuador	85 MB	173 MB	1,019
2019-04	Saudi Arabia	38 KB	357 MB	6
2019-04	UAE / Egypt	30 MB	45 GB	271
2019-03	UAE	227 MB	680 GB	4,248
2019-01	Venezuela	136 MB	81 GB	764
2019-01	Venezuela	1 GB	359 GB	1,196
2019-01	Russia	120 MB	63.7 GB	416
2019-01	Bangladesh	2.6 MB	77 MB	15
2019-01	Iran	717 MB	202 GB	2,320
2018-10	Iran	168 MB	65.7 GB	770
2018-10	Russia	1.2 GB	274 GB	3,613

Source:

To access the datasets, visit the Twitter Transparency Report: https://transparency.twitter.com/en/information-operations.html Then enter your email at the bottom of the page to access the archives.

Source:

https://github.com/MassMove/AttackVectors#twitter

Bird’s eye view of state-backed disinformation operations - a temporal network analysis for the NATO Defense Strategic Communications Journal:

• https://medium.com/swlh/watch-six-decade-long-disinformation-operations-unfold-in-six-minutes-5f69a7e75fb3
• https://www.stratcomcoe.org/ckriel-apavliuc-reverse-engineering-russian-internet-research-agency-tactics-through-network

US 2020 Elections Map

Based on the local journals that are part of the billion-dollar disinformation campaign to reelect the president in 2020; as dissected in https://github.com/MassMove/AttackVectors#local-journalism

Cyber Troops

High Capacity

Country	Status	Notes on Team Size, Training and Spending
China	Permanent	Team size estimates of 300,000-2,000,000 people working in local and regional offices
Egypt	Permanent	–
Iran	Permanent	6,000 USD spent on FB advertisements
Israel	Permanent	Team size estimates of 400 people. Evidence of Formal Training. Multiple contracts valued at 778K USD and 100M USD.
Myanmar	Permanent	Evidence of Formal Training in Russia
Russia	Permanent	–
Saudi Arabia	Permanent	Estimated costs of 150 Pounds for Twitter Hashtag Trends
Syria	Permanent	Multiple Contracts valued at 4,000 USD
United Arab Emirates	Permanent	Multiple Expenditures valued at over 10M USD
United States	Permanent & Temporary	–
Venezuela	Permanent	Team size estimates of multiple brigades of 500 people. Evidence of Formal Training
Vietnam	Permanent & Temporary	Team size estimates of 10,000 people

Source: Cyber Troop Report - University of Oxford: https://comprop.oii.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/93/2019/09/CyberTroop-Report19.pdf

States

China

Ecuador

Egypt & UAE

Iran

Russia

Venezuela