贝尔巨魔为谁而战：Twitter Brexit辩论中的巨魔行为
For Whom the Bell Trolls: Troll Behaviour in the Twitter Brexit Debate
摘要：
在对自动化和恶意活动的审查中，Twitter发布了一份他们认为与国家赞助的2016年美国大选操纵有关的帐户列表。这份名单详细列出了据信由俄罗斯特工控制的2,752个Twitter账户。在没有类似的活跃在2016年英国脱欧公投辩论中的操作人员名单的情况下，我们调查了同一个美国选举焦点账户在制作与英国-欧盟公投相关的内容时的行为。我们发现，在我们的数据集中，我们有来自其中419个账户的与英国脱欧相关的内容，导致在2015年8月29日至2017年10月3日期间收集了3，485条已识别的推文。这些账户的行为在公投当天发生了根本性的变化，从一般性的破坏性推文转向相互转发，以放大其他巨魔账户产生的内容。我们还证明，虽然这些账户通常被设计成类似于美国公民，但2016年创建的账户通常在用户简档中包含德国的位置和术语。
英文摘要：
In a review into automated and malicious activity Twitter released a list of accounts that they believed were connected to state sponsored manipulation of the 2016 American Election. This list details 2,752 accounts Twitter believed to be controlled by Russian operatives. In the absence of a similar list of operatives active within the debate on the 2016 UK referendum on membership of the European Union (Brexit) we investigated the behaviour of the same American Election focused accounts in the production of content related to the UK-EU referendum. We found that within our dataset we had Brexit-related content from 419 of these accounts, leading to 3,485 identified tweets gathered between the 29th August 2015 and 3rd October 2017. The behaviour of the accounts altered radically on the day of the referendum, shifting from generalised disruptive tweeting to retweeting each other in order to amplify content produced by other troll accounts. We also demonstrate that, while these accounts are, in general, designed to resemble American citizens, accounts created in 2016 often contained German locations and terms in the user profiles.
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