论文标题
2022年入侵乌克兰的社交媒体上的俄罗斯宣传
Russian propaganda on social media during the 2022 invasion of Ukraine
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论文摘要
2022年2月，俄罗斯对乌克兰的入侵伴随着信息战的做法，但现有的证据在很大程度上是轶事，而大规模的经验证据则缺乏。在这里，我们分析了亲俄罗斯支持在社交媒体上的传播。为此，我们在支持俄罗斯的支持下从Twitter收集了N = 349,455条消息。我们的发现表明，亲俄的消息收到了约251,000个转发，从而达到了约1,440万用户。我们进一步提供证据表明，机器人在传播亲俄罗斯信息的传播中起着不成比例的作用，并在早期扩散中扩大了其增殖。弃权对联合国决议ES-11/1（例如印度，南非和巴基斯坦）进行投票的国家表现出明显的机器人活动。总体而言，有20.28％的播放器被归类为机器人，其中大多数是在入侵开始时创建的。我们的发现共同表明，在社交媒体上进行了大规模的俄罗斯宣传活动，并强调了源自它的新威胁。我们的结果还表明，遏制机器人可能是减轻此类活动的有效策略。
The Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 was accompanied by practices of information warfare, yet existing evidence is largely anecdotal while large-scale empirical evidence is lacking. Here, we analyze the spread of pro-Russian support on social media. For this, we collected N = 349,455 messages from Twitter with pro-Russian support. Our findings suggest that pro-Russian messages received ~251,000 retweets and thereby reached around 14.4 million users. We further provide evidence that bots played a disproportionate role in the dissemination of pro-Russian messages and amplified its proliferation in early-stage diffusion. Countries that abstained from voting on the United Nations Resolution ES-11/1 such as India, South Africa, and Pakistan showed pronounced activity of bots. Overall, 20.28% of the spreaders are classified as bots, most of which were created at the beginning of the invasion. Together, our findings suggest the presence of a large-scale Russian propaganda campaign on social media and highlight the new threats to society that originate from it. Our results also suggest that curbing bots may be an effective strategy to mitigate such campaigns.
