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Troops, Trolls and Troublemakers: A Global Inventory of Organized Social Media Manipulation

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Cyber troops are government, military or political party teams committed to manipulating public opinion over social media. In this working paper, we report on specific organizations created, often with public money, to help define and manage what is in the best interest of the public. We compare such organizations across 28 countries, and inventory them according to the kinds of messages, valences and communication strategies used. We catalogue their organizational forms and evaluate their...

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University of Oxford
Division:
Social Sciences Division
Department:
Oxford Internet Institute
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University of Oxford
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SSD
Department:
Oxford Internet Institute
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Oxford Internet Institute
Host title:
Computational Propaganda Research Project
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Pages:
1-37
Place of publication:
Oxford, UK
Publication date:
2017-07-18
Paper number:
2017.12
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uuid:cef7e8d9-27bf-4ea5-9fd6-855209b3e1f6
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742283
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2017-11-02

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