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Disinformation and social bot operations in the run up to the 2017 French presidential election
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Recent accounts from researchers, journalists, as well as federal investigators, reached a unanimous conclusion: social media are systematically exploited to manipulate and alter public opinion. Some disinformation campaigns have been coordinated by means of bots, social media accounts controlled by computer scripts that try to disguise themselves as legitimate human users. In this study, we describe one such operation that occurred in the run up to the 2017 French presidential election. We collected a massive Twitter dataset of nearly 17 million posts, posted between 27 April and 7 May 2017 (Election Day). We then set to study the MacronLeaks disinformation campaign: By leveraging a mix of machine learning and cognitive behavioral modeling techniques, we separated humans from bots, and then studied the activities of the two groups independently, as well as their interplay. We provide a characterization of both the bots and the users who engaged with them, and oppose it to those users who didn’t. Prior interests of disinformation adopters pinpoint to the reasons of scarce success of this campaign: the users who engaged with MacronLeaks are mostly foreigners with pre-existing interest in alt-right topics and alternative news media, rather than French users with diverse political views. Concluding, anomalous account usage patterns suggest the possible existence of a black market for reusable political disinformation bots.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Ferrara, E.
- Affiliations
- University of Southern California (US)
- Corresponding author
- Ferrara, Emilio
- ORCID
- Ferrara, Emilio
- Venue
- First Monday
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Libraries
- Published
- 2017-07-31
- ISSN
- 1396-0458 (ISSN-L)
- 1396-0466
- OpenAlex
- W2724523750
- Cited by
- 524
- References
- 65
- Citations by year
- 2026: 32 · 2025: 39 · 2024: 56 · 2023: 43 · 2022: 64 · 2021: 73 · 2020: 92 · 2019: 64 · 2018: 52 · 2017: 4
- FWCI
- 148.49
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- diamond
- doi.org
- Locations
- First Monday (publishedVersion)
- SSRN Electronic Journal (publishedVersion)
- First Monday (acceptedVersion)
- arXiv (Cornell University) (submittedVersion)
- arXiv (Cornell University)
- Funders
- Air Force Office of Scientific Research
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Misinformation and Its Impacts
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Spam and Phishing Detection
- Social Sciences › Communication › Social Media and Politics
- Keywords
- disinformation, social bots, 2017 French presidential election, Twitter, bot detection, human-bot interaction, public opinion manipulation, alt-right
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