Facebook Ad Engagement in the Russian Active Measures Campaign of 2016

no code implementations • 21 Dec 2020 • Mirela Silva, Luiz Giovanini, Juliana Fernandes, Daniela Oliveira, Catia S. Silva

This paper examines 3, 517 Facebook ads created by Russia's Internet Research Agency (IRA) between June 2015 and August 2017 in its active measures disinformation campaign targeting the 2016 U. S. general election.

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People Still Care About Facts: Twitter Users Engage More with Factual Discourse than Misinformation--A Comparison Between COVID and General Narratives on Twitter

no code implementations • 3 Dec 2020 • Mirela Silva, Fabrício Ceschin, Prakash Shrestha, Christopher Brant, Shlok Gilda, Juliana Fernandes, Catia S. Silva, André Grégio, Daniela Oliveira, Luiz Giovanini

We found that (i) factual tweets, regardless of whether COVID-related, were more engaging than misinformation tweets; and (ii) features that most heavily correlated with engagement varied depending on the veracity and content of the tweet.

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