Uncovering Coordinated Networks on Social Media: Methods and Case Studies

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Coordinated campaigns are used to influence and manipulate social media platforms and their users, a critical challenge to the free exchange of information online.

• Here we introduce a general, unsupervised network-based methodology to uncover groups of accounts that are likely coordinated.
• The proposed method constructs coordination networks based on arbitrary behavioral traces shared among accounts.
• We present five case studies of influence campaigns, four of which in the diverse contexts of U.S.