Exposing paid opinion manipulation trolls

T Mihaylov, I Koychev, G Georgiev, P Nakov - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
… a troll; we try 3, 4 and 6, in addition to 5 as above. Table 3 shows the results when testing on
paid trolls with 100+ mentions (4 trolls + 4 non-trolls)… minimum number of mentions as a troll. …

[PDF][PDF] Finding opinion manipulation trolls in news community forums

T Mihaylov, G Georgiev, P Nakov - Proceedings of the nineteenth …, 2015 - aclanthology.org
… topics, named entities, part of speech, and named entities, which should help detect “fresh”
trolls. Our ultimate objective is to be able to find and expose paid opinion manipulation trolls. …

Troops, trolls and troublemakers: A global inventory of organized social media manipulation

S Bradshaw, P Howard - Computational propaganda research project, 2017 - ora.ox.ac.uk
… to manipulate public opinion during a campaign, either by purposefully spreading fake news
or disinformation, or by trolling … They are also not volunteers, because they are paid for their …

Social network behavior and public opinion manipulation

L Chen, J Chen, C Xia - Journal of Information Security and Applications, 2022 - Elsevier
… Most of these paid senders and commentators of false … ’s use of troll behavior is more and
more exposed. Entity supported by … opinion weapons are mainly divided into Bot, Botnet, Troll, …

[PDF][PDF] Media manipulation and disinformation online

A Marwick, R Lewis - New York: Data & Society Research Institute, 2017 - posiel.com
Trolls have a history of manipulating the media to call out … , they are exposing the hypocrisy,
ignorance, and stupidity of … opinion. (See the “Misinformation” section for more discussion.) …

Who let the trolls out? towards understanding state-sponsored trolls

S Zannettou, T Caulfield, W Setzer… - Proceedings of the 10th …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
… that trolls can indeed manipulate users’ opinions in online forums. In follow-up work, Mihaylov
and Nakov [32] highlight two types of trolls: those paid … e central green community exposes

Hunting for troll comments in news community forums

T Mihaylov, P Nakov - arXiv preprint arXiv:1911.08113, 2019 - arxiv.org
… about trolls, and started publicly exposing them. … of opinion manipulation trolls: paid trolls
that have been revealed from leaked “reputation management contracts”1 and “mentioned trolls

Anyone can become a troll: Causes of trolling behavior in online discussions

J Cheng, M Bernstein… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
… An experiment that manipulated the initial votes an article … : participants were either
exposed to an unrelated positive or … no bearing on their payment at the end of the experiment. …

Who falls for online political manipulation?

A Badawy, K Lerman, E Ferrara - … proceedings of the 2019 world wide …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
… In this study, we focus on the role of Russian trolls in the re… the new phenomenon of paid
political trolls who are employed … Moreover, they are being exposed to more political content …

The social phenomenon of trolling: understanding the discourse and social practices of online provocation

V Demsar, J Brace-Govan, G Jack… - Journal of Marketing …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
… After a brief review of the literature associated with … work by revealing that deception does
not have to be present for … Deceptive brand trolling comprises sarcasm, manipulating identity, …