How Pro-Government “Trolls” Influence Online Conversations in Russia
This event will be held virtually as a Zoom meeting: https://nyu.zoom.us/j/96312687337. In this talk, Dr. Anton Sobolev will unpack the technology of the Russian government propaganda and manipulation of online discussions, and establishes the causal effect of government interventions on the online behavior of social media users. Using a novel database on the activity of the state-sponsored online propagandists masquerading…