Cross-platform information spread during the January 6th capitol riots

Ng, Lynnette Hui Xian; Cruickshank, Iain J.; Carley, Kathleen M.

doi:10.1007/s13278-022-00937-1

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“…This method harnesses the fact that similar narratives can be spread across the event discourse but are not necessarily within a short temporal window of each other. Identifying similar narratives has revealed coordinated messaging among Parler users during the 2021 US Capitol Riots (Ng et al, 2022b ) and also unveiled coordinated groups behind the 2018–2019 White Helmets disinformation campaign (Pacheco et al, 2020 ).…”

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Do you hear the people sing? Comparison of synchronized URL and narrative themes in 2020 and 2023 French protests

Ng,

Carley

2023

Front. Big Data

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IntroductionFrance has seen two key protests within the term of President Emmanuel Macron: one in 2020 against Islamophobia, and another in 2023 against the pension reform. During these protests, there is much chatter on online social media platforms like Twitter.MethodsIn this study, we aim to analyze the differences between the online chatter of the 2 years through a network-centric view, and in particular the synchrony of users. This study begins by identifying groups of accounts that work together through two methods: temporal synchronicity and narrative similarity. We also apply a bot detection algorithm to identify bots within these networks and analyze the extent of inorganic synchronization within the discourse of these events.ResultsOverall, our findings suggest that the synchrony of users in 2020 on Twitter is much higher than that of 2023, and there are more bot activity in 2020 compared to 2023.

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Do you hear the people sing? Comparison of synchronized URL and narrative themes in 2020 and 2023 French protests

Ng,

Carley

2023

Front. Big Data

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“…This indicates that both environments have separate information consumption spheres, with different communicative strategies from groups with the same ideological objectives. Such a case has been observed in the US Capitol Riots event, an event with significant white supremacist propaganda, where there were different disinformation narratives propagated across YouTube and website videos [39].…”

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Online to Offline Crossover of White Supremacist Propaganda

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Jagdagdorj

et al. 2023

Companion Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2023

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White supremacist extremist groups are a significant domestic terror threat in many Western nations. These groups harness the Internet to spread their ideology via online platforms: blogs, chat rooms, forums, and social media, which can inspire violence offline. In this work, we study the persistence and reach of white supremacist propaganda in both online and offline environments. We also study patterns in narratives that crossover from online to offline environments, or vice versa. From a geospatial analysis, we find that offline propaganda is geographically widespread in the United States, with a slight tendency toward Northeastern states. Propaganda that spreads the farthest and lasts the longest has a patriotic framing and is short, memorable, and repeatable. Through text comparison methods, we illustrate that online propaganda typically leads the appearance of the same propaganda in offline flyers, banners, and graffiti. We hope that this study sheds light on the characteristics of persistent white supremacist narratives both online and offline. CCS CONCEPTS• Human-centered computing → Collaborative and social computing; • Social and professional topics → User characteristics; • Information systems → Social networking sites.

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“…While there are preliminary studies on cross-platform URL synchronization, the studies primarily examined which URLs are most shared among a users of the multiple platforms, rather than quantifying whether the users are coordinating their sharing of URLs within and across platforms (Ng et al. 2022 ; Phadke and Mitra 2020 ).…”

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A combined synchronization index for evaluating collective action social media

Ng¹,

Carley²

2023

Appl Netw Sci

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Social media has provided a citizen voice, giving rise to grassroots collective action, where users deploy a concerted effort to disseminate online narratives and even carry out offline protests. Sometimes these collective action are aided by inorganic synchronization, which arise from bot actors. It is thus important to identify the synchronicity of emerging discourse on social media and the indications of organic/inorganic activity within the conversations. This provides a way of profiling an event for possibility of offline protests and violence. In this study, we build on past definitions of synchronous activity on social media— simultaneous user action–and develop a Combined Synchronization Index (CSI) which adopts a hierarchical approach in measuring user synchronicity. We apply this index on six political and social activism events on Twitter and analyzed three action types: synchronicity by hashtag, URL and @mentions.The CSI provides an overall quantification of synchronization across all action types within an event, which allows ranking of a spectrum of synchronicity across the six events. Human users have higher synchronous scores than bot users in most events; and bots and humans exhibits the most synchronized activities across all events as compared to other pairs (i.e., bot-bot and human-human). We further rely on the harmony and dissonance of CSI-Network scores with network centrality metrics to observe the presence of organic/inorganic synchronization. We hope this work aids in investigating synchronized action within social media in a collective manner.

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Cross-platform information spread during the January 6th capitol riots

Cited by 17 publications

References 37 publications

Do you hear the people sing? Comparison of synchronized URL and narrative themes in 2020 and 2023 French protests

Do you hear the people sing? Comparison of synchronized URL and narrative themes in 2020 and 2023 French protests

Online to Offline Crossover of White Supremacist Propaganda

A combined synchronization index for evaluating collective action social media

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