Information Politics and Propaganda in Authoritarian Societies

B Rosenfeld, J Wallace - Annual Review of Political Science, 2024 - annualreviews.org
What role does propaganda play in the information politics of authoritarian societies, and
what is its relationship to censorship? What have we learned from rival accounts in recent …

The echo chamber effect on social media

M Cinelli, G De Francisci Morales… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Social media may limit the exposure to diverse perspectives and favor the formation of
groups of like-minded users framing and reinforcing a shared narrative, that is, echo …

[图书][B] Spin dictators: The changing face of tyranny in the 21st century

S Guriev, D Treisman - 2022 - books.google.com
How a new breed of dictators holds power by manipulating information and faking
democracy Hitler, Stalin, and Mao ruled through violence, fear, and ideology. But in recent …

Exposure to the Russian Internet Research Agency foreign influence campaign on Twitter in the 2016 US election and its relationship to attitudes and voting behavior

G Eady, T Paskhalis, J Zilinsky, R Bonneau… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
There is widespread concern that foreign actors are using social media to interfere in
elections worldwide. Yet data have been unavailable to investigate links between exposure …

Disinformation as a threat to deliberative democracy

S McKay, C Tenove - Political research quarterly, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
It is frequently claimed that online disinformation threatens democracy, and that
disinformation is more prevalent or harmful because social media platforms have disrupted …

Russian propaganda on social media during the 2022 invasion of Ukraine

D Geissler, D Bär, N Pröllochs, S Feuerriegel - EPJ Data Science, 2023 - epjds.epj.org
Abstract The Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 was accompanied by practices
of information warfare, yet existing evidence is largely anecdotal while large-scale empirical …

Putin, Putinism, and the domestic determinants of Russian foreign policy

M McFaul - International Security, 2020 - direct.mit.edu
Why did Russia's relations with the West shift from cooperation a few decades ago to a new
era of confrontation today? Some explanations focus narrowly on changes in the balance of …

Digital threats to democracy: Comparative lessons and possible remedies

ML Miller, C Vaccari - The International Journal of Press …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
We introduce a special issue that collects eight articles, comprising research from twenty-
three countries and four continents on the sources, impact on citizens, and possible …

Content-based features predict social media influence operations

M Alizadeh, JN Shapiro, C Buntain, JA Tucker - Science advances, 2020 - science.org
We study how easy it is to distinguish influence operations from organic social media activity
by assessing the performance of a platform-agnostic machine learning approach. Our …

Voterfraud2020: a multi-modal dataset of election fraud claims on twitter

A Abilov, Y Hua, H Matatov, O Amir… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - ojs.aaai.org
The wide spread of unfounded election fraud claims surrounding the US 2020 election had
resulted in undermining of trust in the election, culminating in violence inside the US capitol …