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TROLLMAGNIFIER: Detecting State-Sponsored Troll Accounts on Reddit
Saeed, Ali, Blackburn, De Cristofaro, Zannettou, Stringhini · IEEE Symposium on Security & Privacy (S&P) · 2022
- Authors
- Saeed, Ali, Blackburn, De Cristofaro, Zannettou, Stringhini
- Year
- 2022
- Venue
- IEEE Symposium on Security & Privacy (S&P)
- Topic
- bots
Summary
Building on the 335 Russian-sponsored troll accounts Reddit itself identified (active 2015-2018), the authors show such accounts exhibit loose coordination and shared behavioral signals, and build a detector that surfaces additional likely troll accounts from those patterns. Direct technical evidence of state-sponsored influence operations operating on Reddit.
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Sources
- 01arXiv abstract (2112.00443)Academic2022
- 02UCL Discovery recordAcademic2022