One of the datasets comprises the content generated by left and right-wing Russian trolls in coordinated information operations. Another is organic and contrasts with original Republican or Democrat-oriented tweets. Our results show that the entropy in the case of the organic dataset has different ...
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76 countries used disinformation and media manipulation as part of their campaigns, 30 countries used data-drive strategies to target specific users with political advertisements, 59 countries used state sponsored trolls to attack political opponents or activists in 2019, up from 47 countries in 2019....
Examples of memes shared online by Russian government-sponsored trolls. Credit:Zannettou et al., 2019.,CC BY-ND Russian-sponsored Twitter trolls, who soaggressively exploited social mediato influence the 2016 U.S. presidential election, didn't stop when Donald Trump was elected president. Even ...
but these interactions can be manipulated overtly and covertly by legitimate influencers as well as inauthentic, adversarial actors who are motivated to influence opinions or radicalize behaviors32. Evidence suggests that malicious entities like social bots and trolls have already been deployed to spread...
Moreover, the originators of such news may be non-conventional political actors, ranging from political activists to trolls who enjoy disruption for its own sake. Concurrently, the granularity of news items on social media as opposed to their packaging in mass media implies that parts of the ...
I bought some storage space for my belongings in Washington, and headed to NYU to try to do some systematic research about how digital technology affects the way politics gets done. With the help of advisers and colleagues, I wrote papers about echo chambers, Russian trolls, and other topics...
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On a quest to divide and conquer, persuasion actors may resort to techniques ofname callinganddehumanizationto portray opponents as less than human, such as, for instance, calling their political opponents “bots”, “trolls”, “zombies” or other derogatory terms denying agency ...