Acting the Part
Acting the Part
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扮演角色
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2018
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Kate Starbird
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Ahmer Arif;L. Stewart;Kate Starbird
这项研究调查了俄罗斯造假者是如何参与2016年美国关于#黑人生命很重要运动和警察相关枪击事件的高度紧张的在线对话的。我们首先使用基于转发流的网络图来展示Twitter上这种对话的高级动态，该网络图揭示了两个结构不同的社区。接下来，我们在这张图中找出了被Twitter暂停的账户，因为它们隶属于互联网研究机构（Internet Research Agency），一个被指控为支持俄罗斯政治利益进行信息操作的实体。最后，我们进行了解释性分析，巩固了对这些账户活动的观察。我们的研究结果对寻求开发确定真实性机制的平台具有启示意义——通过阐明虚假信息演员如何制定真实的人物角色和漫画来针对不同的受众。这项工作还揭示了这些行为者如何通过放大分裂内容的分歧流来系统地操纵政治活跃的在线社区。
This research examines how Russian disinformation actors participated in a highly charged online conversation about the #BlackLivesMatter movement and police-related shootings in the USA during 2016. We first present high-level dynamics of this conversation on Twitter using a network graph based on retweet flows that reveals two structurally distinct communities. Next, we identify accounts in this graph that were suspended by Twitter for being affiliated with the Internet Research Agency, an entity accused of conducting information operations in support of Russian political interests. Finally, we conduct an interpretive analysis that consolidates observations about the activities of these accounts. Our findings have implications for platforms seeking to develop mechanisms for determining authenticity---by illuminating how disinformation actors enact authentic personas and caricatures to target different audiences. This work also sheds light on how these actors systematically manipulate politically active online communities by amplifying diverging streams of divisive content.