Temporal dynamics of coordinated online behavior: Stability, archetypes, and influence.

ABSTRACT: Large-scale online campaigns, malicious or otherwise, require a significant degree of coordination among participants, which sparked interest in the study of coordinated online behavior. State-of-the-art methods for detecting coordinated behavior perform static analyses, disregarding the temporal dynamics of coordination. Here, we carry out a dynamic analysis of coordinated behavior. To reach our goal, we build a multiplex temporal network and we perform dynamic community detection to identify groups of users that exhibited coordinated behaviors in time. We find that i) coordinated communities (CCs) feature variable degrees of temporal instability; ii) dynamic analyses are needed to account for such instability, and results of static analyses can be unreliable and scar

SUBMITTER: Tardelli S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11098117 | biostudies-literature | 2024 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature