Computational Propaganda in the United States of America: Manufacturing Consensus Online
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....................................................................................................................................................... 3 Introduction................................................................................................................................................... 3 An Ethnographic Investigation of Bots and Campaigns in 2016 ....................................................... 4 Campaign Fieldwork ........................................................................................................................................... 5 Agenda Setting and the Campaign ................................................................................................................. 7 The Media and the Campaign .......................................................................................................................... 8 The Megaphone Effect ..................................................................................................................................... 10 A Network Analysis of Twitterbots during the 2016 Election .......................................................... 14 Sampling the Twittersphere ............................................................................................................................ 14 Bot or Not? ......................................................................................................................................................... 14 Classifying Users ............................................................................................................................................... 15 A Brief Primer on Network Analysis .............................................................................................................. 16 K-core Decomposition ....................................................................................................................................... 16 Betweenness Centrality .................................................................................................................................... 17 Comparing the Complexity of Botnets with Global Transitivity .............................................................. 18 Evidence of Influence ........................................................................................................................................ 18 The Rise of Bots: Implications for Politics, Policy, and Method ................................................................. 22 References .................................................................................................................................................. 24 About the Authors ..................................................................................................................................... 27 Citation ....................................................................................................................................................... 28 Series Acknowledgements ....................................................................................................................... 28
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