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"For a number of years, Russia has been developing a new strategy of influence abroad which has been particularly active in cyberspace. Two processes are central to this. Firstly, there is a massive production of media content produced by Russian press agencies and media, that are then very efficiently propagated and disseminated throughout social media platforms. These new practices require us to develop new approaches and innovative methods of analysis and cartography. This research uses the French presidential campaign of 2017 as a case study; and draws on databases from Twitter, to provide a succinct introduction to new ways of mapping the networks of influence and nodes of Russian cyber influence in France."