What strategies do political trolls use to drive collective action? How effective are they? ✊🏾

Our ICWSM paper conducted a large scale data analysis on this.

We uncovered how they created bots for sustain engagement & promoting a collective identity.:bongoCat:

➡️ https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.00429

#politics #collectiveaction #datascience #largescale #data #reddit #troll #politicalTrolls #trump

Are women of color political candidates more likely to be subject to disinformation & online abuse?🧑‍⚖️❌🏛️

🚨What are its impacts?

My lab teamed up with the Center of Democracy & Technology to conduct a large scale data analysis of this topic 👩‍🔬💻

👉See: https://osf.io/bwta3/

#disinformation #misinformation #politicaldisinformation #politicalTrolls #research #datascience