Political Astroturfing in Electoral Campaigns: A comparison between the South Korean and the US presidential election

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Brief Overview

We compare two hidden propaganda campaigns on Twitter: the South Korean Secret Service's attempt at influencing the presidential elections in 2012, and the Russian troll intervention in the 2016 US presidential elections.

Authors

• Franziska Barbara Keller, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

• David Schoch, University of Manchester

• Sebastian Stier, GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences

• JungHwan Yang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign