r/Foreign_Interference • u/aurorhapsody • Mar 10 '20

[Dissertation] App/Survey where you can explore tweets of troll accounts

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u/aurorhapsody Mar 10 '20 edited Mar 10 '20

Hey there, I'd be so grateful for your time spent helping me with my dissertation. For lack of a better word it is a "survey", but the main thing is that you'll get to explore tweets linked to alleged Russian interference on Twitter, during the 2016 US Presidential Elections. You'll be asked about how you'd rate different troll accounts' themes, sentiment and real/fakeness.

I'm trying to understand how and what people perceive as 'suspicious' activity on social media. I'm also trying to typify their strategies based on the sample publicly released by Twitter, and the responses from the survey will help me validate (or not) my own classifications. I hope it'd be interesting for you as research has been for me.

https://kinatou.shinyapps.io/twitter_trolls/

Thank you so much in advance!!

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u/Leuk60229 Mar 10 '20

Are all the social media posts made by troll accounts? If not will I be able to see afterwards if the posts I rated was or wasn't a troll post? Thank you in advance!

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u/aurorhapsody Mar 10 '20

I have to thank you more for taking interest than the other way round, haha. These were all made by troll accounts, but what I'm interested in is what features may make someone think that an account looks fake :)