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Detecting and Tracking Political Abuse in Social Media

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Jacob Ratkiewicz,Michael Conover,Mark Meiss,Bruno Goncalves,Alessandro Flammini,Filippo Menczer

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Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, 5

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Vol. 5 No. 1 (2011): Fifth International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media

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We study astroturf political campaigns on microblogging platforms: politically-motivated individuals and organizations that use multiple centrally-controlled accounts to create the appearance of widespread support for a candidate or opinion. We describe a machine learning framework that combines topological, content-based and crowdsourced features of information diffusion networks on Twitter to detect the early stages of viral spreading of political misinformation.  We present promising preliminary results with better than 96% accuracy in the detection of astroturf content in the run-up to the 2010 U.S. midterm elections.

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10.1609/icwsm.v5i1.14127


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Vol. 5 No. 1 (2011): Fifth International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media