Signals of propaganda-Detecting and estimating political influences in information spread in social networks.

ABSTRACT: Social networks are a battlefield for political propaganda. Protected by the anonymity of the internet, political actors use computational propaganda to influence the masses. Their methods include the use of synchronized or individual bots, multiple accounts operated by one social media management tool, or different manipulations of search engines and social network algorithms, all aiming to promote their ideology. While computational propaganda influences modern society, it is hard to measure or detect it. Furthermore, with the recent exponential growth in large language models (L.L.M), and the growing concerns about information overload, which makes the alternative truth spheres more noisy than ever before, the complexity and magnitude of computational propaganda is also expected to incr

SUBMITTER: Sela A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11781619 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature