Exploiting the Right: Inferring Ideological Alignment in Online
Influence Campaigns Using Shared Images
- URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2204.06453v1
- Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2022 15:22:17 GMT
- Title: Exploiting the Right: Inferring Ideological Alignment in Online
Influence Campaigns Using Shared Images
- Authors: Amogh Joshi and Cody Buntain
- Abstract summary: This work advances investigations into the visual media shared by agents in disinformation campaigns by characterizing the images shared by accounts identified by Twitter as part of such campaigns.
Using images shared by US politicians' Twitter accounts as a baseline and training set, we build models for inferring the ideological presentation of accounts using the images they share.
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- License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
- Abstract: This work advances investigations into the visual media shared by agents in
disinformation campaigns by characterizing the images shared by accounts
identified by Twitter as being part of such campaigns. Using images shared by
US politicians' Twitter accounts as a baseline and training set, we build
models for inferring the ideological presentation of accounts using the images
they share. Results show that, while our models recover the expected bimodal
ideological distribution of US politicians, we find that, on average, four
separate influence campaigns -- attributed to Iran, Russia, China, and
Venezuela -- all present conservative ideological presentations in the images
they share. Given that prior work has shown Twitter accounts used by Russian
disinformation agents are ideologically diverse in the text and news they
share, these image-oriented findings provide new insights into potential axes
of coordination and suggest these accounts may not present consistent
ideological positions across modalities.
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