Coordinating a Multi-Platform Disinformation Campaign: Internet Research Agency Activity on Three U.S. Social Media Platforms, 2015 to 2017
Coordinating a Multi-Platform Disinformation Campaign: Internet Research Agency Activity on Three U.S. Social Media Platforms, 2015 to 2017
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协调多平台虚假信息活动：2015 年至 2017 年互联网研究机构在美国三个社交媒体平台上的活动
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发表时间：
2020
影响因子：
7.5
通讯作者：
Josephine Lukito
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作者：
Josephine Lukito
尽管民族国家长期以来一直利用虚假信息来影响外国观众，但俄罗斯2015年至2017年的反美运动-由互联网研究机构（伊拉）执行-在其复杂性和通过数字通信生态的分布方面是独一无二的。以下研究探讨了伊拉在Facebook、Twitter和Reddit三个社交媒体平台上的活动，以了解这些网站上的活动是如何在时间上协调的。使用VAR分析与格兰杰因果关系测试，结果表明，伊拉Reddit活动格兰杰导致爱尔兰共和伊拉Twitter活动在一周内滞后。一种解释可能是，互联网研究机构正在一个平台上试验气球（即，Reddit）来找出哪些消息最适合在其他社交媒体上发布（即，Twitter）。
Though nation-states have long utilized disinformation to influence foreign audiences, Russia’s 2015 to 2017 campaign against the U.S.—executed by the Internet Research Agency (IRA) —is unique in its complexity and distribution through the digital communication ecology. The following study explores IRA activity on three social media platforms, Facebook, Twitter, and Reddit, to understand how activities on these sites were temporally coordinated. Using a VAR analysis with Granger Causality tests, results show that IRA Reddit activity granger caused IRA Twitter activity within a one-week lag. One explanation may be that the Internet Research Agency is trial ballooning on one platform (i.e., Reddit) to figure out which messages are optimal to distribute on other social media (i.e., Twitter).