作者: Jacob Ratkiewicz , Alessandro Flammini , Mark Meiss , Michael D. Conover , Filippo Menczer Menczer
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摘要: 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 …