It is impossible to accurately estimate the number of Russian state-sponsored accounts operating on Twitter and Facebook. Researchers come up with a wide range of possibilities, suggesting that Russian interference in British political and cultural life could come from anywhere between 50 and 150,000 accounts. Based on what we know about Russian information warfare, the Twitter accounts run by the country's "troll army", based in a nondescript office building in St Petersburg, are unlikely to be automated at all. British MP calls on Twitter to release Russian 'troll factory' tweets Read moreAccording to researchers from five different universities, then, the scale of Russian interference was somewhere between 50 and 150,000 accounts. The problem for all the researchers is that only one organisation has the data they need, and Twitter is not willing to share it.

Source: The Guardian November 15, 2017 18:44 UTC