Posted on 09/06/2022 10:43:22 AM PDT by Ultra Sonic 007
Abstract. The 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine emphasises the role social media plays in modern day warfare, with conflict occurring in both the physical and information environments. There is a large body of work on identifying malicious cyber-activity, but less focusing on the effect this activity has on the overall conversation, especially with regards to the Russia/Ukraine Conflict. Here, we employ a variety of techniques including information theoretic measures, sentiment and linguistic analysis, and time series techniques to understand how bot activity influences wider online discourse. By aggregating account groups we find significant information flows from bot-like accounts to non-bot accounts with behaviour differing between sides. Pro-Russian non-bot accounts are most influential overall, with information flows to a variety of other account groups. No significant outward flows exist from pro-Ukrainian non-bot accounts, with significant flows from pro-Ukrainian bot accounts into pro-Ukrainian non-bot accounts. We find that bot activity drives an increase in conversations surrounding angst (with p = 2.450 × 10^−4 ) as well as those surrounding work/governance (with p = 3.803 × 10^−18). Bot activity also shows a significant relationship with non-bot sentiment (with p = 3.76×10^−4 ), where we find the relationship holds in both directions. This work extends and combines existing techniques to quantify how bots are influencing people in the online conversation around the Russia/Ukraine invasion. It opens up avenues for researchers to understand quantitatively how these malicious campaigns operate, and what makes them impactful.
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#IStandWTheUSA
By the way, the premise in the headline betrays the bias.
Note it is not stand with putin or stand with zelensku. And it is not stand with Russia or stand with Ukraine. Instead it commences with a bogus opposition.
By the way, the premise in the headline betrays the bias.
Note it is not stand with putin or stand with zelensku. And it is not stand with Russia or stand with Ukraine. Instead it commences with a bogus opposition.
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Yes. Why should real Americans care about either?
#ThisWarWas100%Avoidable
Me too. #IStandWithTheUSA even though it is being destroyed.
I simply observe this conflict There is no obligation to support either. This war is a loser for both sides.
now now, stop acting like an enemy of the state...
I stand with those being slaughtered in a global game run by the elites.
“Yes. Why should real Americans care about either?”
It’s really more of a civil war. We’ll see in the future if it was a good idea for Ukraine to keep playing footsie with NATO.
Why should any real American care what happens in or to the Ukraine or for that matter Europe? Our country is being destroyed and this site is infested with K Street Globo-homo whores pimping for war with Russia while the southern border of the US is liquidated.
I noticed that you double posted and I do that too sometimes and I really don’t know how that even happens.
The kind of bias you are talking about is very difficult to see in oneself. It is also entirely possible that there is no bias whatsoever in the selection of terms for the title and the real bias is with you.
My bias is with the students of the Slavic Baptist Institute (Natasha Vins, etc.) located in Kovel but drawing students from all over the former soviet union. I haven’t been there in nearly two decades, but when I taught there, it was very clear that there was in the surrounding cities and villages a faction of nationalistic Ukrainians who viewed their remembered Nazi occupation as vastly superior to their more recent communist occupation. The real Christians, of the “unregistered church”, saw the Russian-speaking believers as brothers and said that both their governments were run by what they called “mafia”.
Thank you.
Talk to these fellow comrades, yo....
‘Canadian “Super Soldier” Wali Goes Home - Tells Tale of Ukraine Losing War’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kz0qkS6aT5c
This story confirms the one linked above:
‘Canadian fighting in Ukraine describes the ‘hell’ he witnessed’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zN2NdiFJFh0
Bravo.
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