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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"influence campaigns"”.
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Identifying and assessing coordinated influence campaigns on social networks
… have given us the ability to spread messages and influence large populations very easily. Malicious actors can take advantage of social networks to manipulate opinions using artificial accounts, or bots. It is suspected that the 2016 U.S. presidential election was the victim of such social network …
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Developing Pattern and Anomaly Detection Methods in Influence Campaigns
Influence operations are a prominent psychological component of modern warfare. Recent historic events including the 2016 US election, the 2021 Myanmar Coup, and the Russian invasion of Ukraine in early 2022 have catapulted Department of Defense (DoD) interest in modeling and predicting outcomes of …
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Mitigating foreign social media influence campaigns in U.S. elections
… performs a deep dive analysis into the IRA's influence campaign on one social media platform: Twitter, and identifies worrying trends in account creation, tweet volume, and tweet content that indicate growing investment into IRA operations. This marked expansion of Twitter activity likely …
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Hauntological Warfare: Explorations in Propaganda, Influence Campaigns, and Online Affect
… Warfare: Explorations in Propaganda, Influence Campaigns, and Online Aesthetics</em>, investigates how ideological power continues to shape contemporary reality through both overt and spectral means. Drawing from concepts like hauntology, psychological operations (PsyOps), and …
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Hidden Influence in Dynamic Networks
… techniques, this research delves into the hidden influence that weaves through seemingly unrelated, yet intrinsically connected, entities in online social and financial networks. I begin with a foundational overview of graph learning techniques and the specific models utilized in my work. The body …
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Partisanship, Friendship, and Censorship in Online Social Networks
… aspects of this problem, from tie formation to influence campaigns, examining factors of partisanship, friendship, and censorship in today’s online social networks. We begin in the first chapter with an overview of social media and the key behaviors of the users of these platforms and the …
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Image Forgery Detection with Machine Learning
<p>The issue of forged images is currently a global issue that spreads mainly via social networks. Image forgery has weakened Internet users’ confidence in digital images. In recent years, extensive research has been devoted to the development of new techniques to combat various image forgery …