Matteo Serafino, Zhenkun Zhou, José S. Andrade, Alexandre Bovet, Hernán A. Makse
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Abstract
The ongoing debate surrounding the impact of the Internet Research Agency’s (IRA) social media campaign during the 2016 U.S. presidential election has largely overshadowed the involvement of other actors. Our analysis brings to light a substantial group of suspended Twitter users, outnumbering the IRA user group by a factor of 60, who align with the ideologies of the IRA campaign. Our study demonstrates that this group of suspended Twitter accounts significantly influenced individuals categorized as undecided or weak supporters, potentially with the aim of swaying their opinions, as indicated by Granger causality.
围绕互联网研究机构（IRA）在 2016 年美国总统大选期间的社交媒体活动所产生的影响而展开的持续辩论在很大程度上掩盖了其他参与者的参与。我们的分析揭示了一大批被暂停推特账号的用户，其人数比 IRA 用户多出 60 倍，他们与 IRA 运动的意识形态一致。我们的研究表明，正如格兰杰因果关系所显示的那样，这群被暂停的推特账户极大地影响了被归类为未决定或弱支持者的个人，其目的可能是左右他们的观点。
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EPJ Data Science covers a broad range of research areas and applications and particularly encourages contributions from techno-socio-economic systems, where it comprises those research lines that now regard the digital “tracks” of human beings as first-order objects for scientific investigation. Topics include, but are not limited to, human behavior, social interaction (including animal societies), economic and financial systems, management and business networks, socio-technical infrastructure, health and environmental systems, the science of science, as well as general risk and crisis scenario forecasting up to and including policy advice.
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