IRA Propaganda on Twitter: Stoking Antagonism and Tweeting Local News
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IRA Propaganda on Twitter : Stoking Antagonism and Tweeting Local News. / Farkas, Johan; Bastos, Marco.
SMSociety '18: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Social Media and Society. 2018. p. 281–285.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Article in proceedings › Research › peer-review
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TY - GEN
T1 - IRA Propaganda on Twitter
T2 - Stoking Antagonism and Tweeting Local News
AU - Farkas, Johan
AU - Bastos, Marco
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - This paper presents preliminary findings of a content analysis of tweets posted by false accounts operated by the Internet Research Agency (IRA) in St Petersburg. We relied on a historical database of tweets to retrieve 4,539 tweets posted by IRA-linked accounts between 2012 and 2017 and coded 2,501 tweets manually. The messages cover newsworthy events in the United States, the Charlie Hebdo terrorist attack in 2015, and the Brexit referendum in 2016. Tweets were annotated using 19 control variables to investigate whether IRA operations on social media are consistent with classic propaganda models. The results show that the IRA operates a composite of user accounts tailored to perform specific tasks, with the lion's share of their work focusing on US daily news activity and the diffusion of polarized news across different national contexts.
AB - This paper presents preliminary findings of a content analysis of tweets posted by false accounts operated by the Internet Research Agency (IRA) in St Petersburg. We relied on a historical database of tweets to retrieve 4,539 tweets posted by IRA-linked accounts between 2012 and 2017 and coded 2,501 tweets manually. The messages cover newsworthy events in the United States, the Charlie Hebdo terrorist attack in 2015, and the Brexit referendum in 2016. Tweets were annotated using 19 control variables to investigate whether IRA operations on social media are consistent with classic propaganda models. The results show that the IRA operates a composite of user accounts tailored to perform specific tasks, with the lion's share of their work focusing on US daily news activity and the diffusion of polarized news across different national contexts.
KW - Faculty of Humanities
KW - Desinformation
KW - Propaganda
KW - Rusland
KW - USA
KW - Twitter
KW - Indholdsanalyse
KW - Misinformation
U2 - 10.1145/3217804.3217929
DO - 10.1145/3217804.3217929
M3 - Article in proceedings
SP - 281
EP - 285
BT - SMSociety '18
ER -
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