https:\/\/arxiv.org\/pdf\/1802.04291<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cWe collected a dataset with<\/p>\n
over 43 million elections-related posts shared on Twitter between<\/p>\n
September 16 and October 21, 2016 by about 5.7 million distinct<\/p>\n
users. This dataset included accounts associated with the identified<\/p>\n
Russian trolls. We use label propagation to infer the ideology of all<\/p>\n
users based on the news sources they shared. This method enables<\/p>\n
us to classify a large number of users as liberal or conservative<\/p>\n
with precision and recall above 90%. Conservatives retweeted Rus-<\/p>\n
sian trolls about 31 times more often than liberals and produced<\/p>\n
36 times more tweets. Additionally, most retweets of troll content<\/p>\n
originated from two Southern states: Tennessee and Texas. Using<\/p>\n
state-of-the-art bot detection techniques, we estimated that about<\/p>\n
4.9% and 6.2% of liberal and conservative users respectively were<\/p>\n
bots. Text analysis on the content shared by trolls reveals that they<\/p>\n
had a mostly conservative, pro-Trump agenda. Although an ide-<\/p>\n
ologically broad swath of Twitter users were exposed to Russian<\/p>\n
Trolls in the period leading up to the 2016 U.S. Presidential election,<\/p>\n
it was mainly conservatives who helped amplify their message.\u201d<\/p>\n
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