Insights into using temporal coordinated behaviour to explore connections between social media posts and influence (2025.findings-emnlp)
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Elisa Sartori, Serena Tardelli, Maurizio Tesconi, Mauro Conti, Alessandro Galeazzi, Stefano Cresci, Giovanni Da San Martino
| Challenge: | Political campaigns often use coordinated behaviour to identify communities of users who exhibit similar patterns. |
| Approach: | They analysed messages users were exposed to during the UK 2019 election and compared those received by users who shifted communities with others covering the same topics. |
| Outcome: | The results show that political campaigns often use coordinated behaviour to identify communities of users who exhibit similar patterns. |
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