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Multidimensional Mappings of Political Accounts for Malicious Political Socialbot Identification: Exploring Social Networks, Geographies, and Strategic Messaging

Multidimensional Mappings of Political Accounts for Malicious Political Socialbot Identification: Exploring Social Networks, Geographies, and Strategic Messaging

Shalin Hai-Jew
Copyright: © 2023 |Pages: 84
ISBN13: 9781668474723|ISBN10: 1668474727|EISBN13: 9781668474730
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-6684-7472-3.ch013
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Hai-Jew, Shalin. "Multidimensional Mappings of Political Accounts for Malicious Political Socialbot Identification: Exploring Social Networks, Geographies, and Strategic Messaging." Research Anthology on Social Media's Influence on Government, Politics, and Social Movements, edited by Information Resources Management Association, IGI Global, 2023, pp. 244-327. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-6684-7472-3.ch013

APA

Hai-Jew, S. (2023). Multidimensional Mappings of Political Accounts for Malicious Political Socialbot Identification: Exploring Social Networks, Geographies, and Strategic Messaging. In I. Management Association (Ed.), Research Anthology on Social Media's Influence on Government, Politics, and Social Movements (pp. 244-327). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-6684-7472-3.ch013

Chicago

Hai-Jew, Shalin. "Multidimensional Mappings of Political Accounts for Malicious Political Socialbot Identification: Exploring Social Networks, Geographies, and Strategic Messaging." In Research Anthology on Social Media's Influence on Government, Politics, and Social Movements, edited by Information Resources Management Association, 244-327. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2023. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-6684-7472-3.ch013

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Abstract

Malicious political socialbots used to sway public opinion regarding the U.S. government and its functions have been identified as part of a larger information warfare effort by the Russian government. This work asks what is knowable from a web-based sleuthing approach regarding the following four factors: 1) the ability to identify malicious political socialbot accounts based on their ego neighborhoods at 1, 1.5, and 2 degrees; 2) the ability to identify malicious political socialbot accounts based on the claimed and linked geographical locations of their accounts, their ego neighborhoods, and their #hashtag networks; 3) the ability to identify malicious political socialbot accounts based on their strategic messaging (content, sentiment, and language structures) on respective social media platforms; and 4) the ability to identify and describe “maliciousness” in malicious political socialbot accounts based on observable behaviors on that account on three social media platform types: (a) microblogging, (b) social networking, and (c) crowd-sourced encyclopedia content sharing.

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