Political Astroturfing worldwide

• In Event: Political Communication: Twitter Uses and Impacts for Activism

Brief Overview

We examine ten different hidden propaganda campaigns on Twitter, and find that - compared with different sets of regular users - campaign accounts display significantly more message coordination patterns caused by principal agent problems.

Authors

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

• David Schoch

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

• JungHwan Yang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign