论文标题
揭开白色头盔虚假信息后面的协调组
Unveiling Coordinated Groups Behind White Helmets Disinformation
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论文摘要
宣传，虚假信息，操纵和两极分化是一个越来越依赖社交媒体作为新闻来源的社会的现代疾病。在本文中，我们探讨了由俄罗斯和盟友对叙利亚民防（又称白头盔）赞助的虚假信息运动。我们使用自动转发和内容重复来推出协调组，以促进叙事和/或帐户。结果还揭示了独特的促进策略，从重复共享完全相同的文本的小组到复杂的“新闻网站工厂”，其中数十个帐户同步从多个网站传播相同的新闻。
Propaganda, disinformation, manipulation, and polarization are the modern illnesses of a society increasingly dependent on social media as a source of news. In this paper, we explore the disinformation campaign, sponsored by Russia and allies, against the Syria Civil Defense (a.k.a. the White Helmets). We unveil coordinated groups using automatic retweets and content duplication to promote narratives and/or accounts. The results also reveal distinct promoting strategies, ranging from the small groups sharing the exact same text repeatedly, to complex "news website factories" where dozens of accounts synchronously spread the same news from multiple sites.
