However as you can see, the paper misidentifies @getongab as the "alt-right social platform" despite Gab's founder making a point of stating that's not an appropriate label in particular.pic.twitter.com/0sTsYGXIwn
Free speech activist. Darwinian reactionary. Gnon partisan. Frogs = implicit white identity. #humanbiodiversity
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However as you can see, the paper misidentifies @getongab as the "alt-right social platform" despite Gab's founder making a point of stating that's not an appropriate label in particular.pic.twitter.com/0sTsYGXIwn
Hey @Nighthawk45800 your random tweet was used in this research paper. I hope you feel special.pic.twitter.com/TMmdHenxsr
ah-ha. "The standing policy of VOX-Pol recommends against identifying user handles in studies of social media activity out of privacy and other considerations."pic.twitter.com/RIYlPAFu22
also, lol. "Additionally, after a past study of white nationalist activity on Twitter by the author, users identified as being influential subsequently exploited their rankings for self-promotion."
They claim multiple times here that tweeting and follower patterns are a sign of automated activity, without considering that perhaps the people in the dataset simply act differently (eg they tweet more because they're more politically engaged)
Yeah that was the part I found totally shit, the dumb "it's just bots" narrative, but at the conclusion they came to a number of actors that sounds about right to me, between 100k and 200k with close "alt-right" alignment, and millions more generally "further right than Reagan".
They have literally no evidence of bot activity over a normal baseline, but they claim it anyway.
No doubt it makes the stakeholders that funded the project happy.
But really from a strategic standpoint...let them think it's bots.
No, then they have an easy justification for eliminating accounts.
Also I'm annoyed that I wasn't in this dataset.
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