论文标题
在互联网研究机构联系之前和之后分析Twitter用户的行为
Analyzing Twitter Users' Behavior Before and After Contact by the Internet Research Agency
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论文摘要
近年来，已利用社交媒体平台进行选举干预。特别是，由俄罗斯支持的互联网研究局（IRA）被确定为在2016年美国总统大选之前在Twitter上传播的主要错误信息来源。这项研究的目的是了解一般的Twitter用户是否在IRA帐户首次联系后的一年中改变了其行为。我们比较联系用户的前后行为，以确定其平均推文计数，推文的情感以及推文的频率和情感是否存在差异，提到@realdonaldtrump或@hillaryclinton。我们的结果表明，用户总体上大多数指标表现出统计学上的显着变化，而与IRA互动的用户通常会显示出更大的行为变化。
Social media platforms have been exploited to conduct election interference in recent years. In particular, the Russian-backed Internet Research Agency (IRA) has been identified as a key source of misinformation spread on Twitter prior to the 2016 U.S. presidential election. The goal of this research is to understand whether general Twitter users changed their behavior in the year following first contact from an IRA account. We compare the before and after behavior of contacted users to determine whether there were differences in their mean tweet count, the sentiment of their tweets, and the frequency and sentiment of tweets mentioning @realDonaldTrump or @HillaryClinton. Our results indicate that users overall exhibited statistically significant changes in behavior across most of these metrics, and that those users that engaged with the IRA generally showed greater changes in behavior.
