论文标题
麝香的接管是否促进了Twitter上有争议的演员？
Did the Musk Takeover Boost Contentious Actors on Twitter?
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论文摘要
Twitter被指控在其帐户验证和内容审核政策中存在自由主义偏见。埃隆·马斯克（Elon Musk）在收购公司后承诺，通过大修验证和节制政策在平台上宣传言论自由。这些事件引发了人们对有争议的演员影响的恐惧，尤其是来自政治权利。在本文中，我使用了公开发布的138K Twitter帐户列表，这些列表在2022年11月9日11月9日的开放窗口中购买了蓝色支票验证。我从政治上有争议的帐户样本中检索了490万推文。然后，我比较了麝香收购之前和之后的有争议用户帖子的参与度。我发现，麝香收购之后的时期使参与后大幅增加。蓝色tick验证后没有其他增加。我对新同情的用户群的活动增加解释了这些发现。
Twitter has been accused of a liberal bias in its account verification and content moderation policies. Elon Musk pledged, after his acquisition of the company, to promote free speech on the platform by overhauling verification and moderation policies. These events sparked fears of a rise in influence of contentious actors -- notably from the political right. In this article, I use a publicly released list of 138k Twitter accounts that purchased blue check verification during the open window of November 9-November 11, 2022. I retrieve 4.9m tweets from a sample of politically contentious accounts. I then compare engagement on contentious user posts before and after the Musk acquisition. I find that the period following the Musk acquisition saw a substantive increase in post engagement. There is no additional increase following blue tick verification. I explain the findings with reference to an increase in activity by a newly sympathetic user base.
