Politics and Propaganda on Social Media: How Twitter and Meta Moderate State-Linked Information Operations
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| author | Mugurtay, Nihat Duygu, Umut Varol, Onur |
| author_facet | Mugurtay, Nihat Duygu, Umut Varol, Onur |
| contents | Why do Social Media Corporations (SMCs) engage in state-linked information operations? Social media can significantly influence the global political landscape, allowing governments and other political entities to engage in concerted information operations, shaping or manipulating domestic and foreign political agendas. In response to state-linked political manipulation tactics on social media, Twitter and Meta carried out take-down operations against propaganda networks, accusing them of interfering foreign elections, organizing disinformation campaigns, manipulating political debates and many other issues. This research investigates the two SMCs' policy orientation to explain which factors can affect these two companies' reaction against state-linked information operations. We find that good governance indicators such as democracy are significant elements of SMCs' country-focus. This article also examines whether Meta and Twitter's attention to political regime characteristics is influenced by international political alignments. This research illuminates recent trends in SMCs' take-down operations and illuminating interplay between geopolitics and domestic regime characteristics. |
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| spellingShingle | Politics and Propaganda on Social Media: How Twitter and Meta Moderate State-Linked Information Operations Mugurtay, Nihat Duygu, Umut Varol, Onur Social and Information Networks Why do Social Media Corporations (SMCs) engage in state-linked information operations? Social media can significantly influence the global political landscape, allowing governments and other political entities to engage in concerted information operations, shaping or manipulating domestic and foreign political agendas. In response to state-linked political manipulation tactics on social media, Twitter and Meta carried out take-down operations against propaganda networks, accusing them of interfering foreign elections, organizing disinformation campaigns, manipulating political debates and many other issues. This research investigates the two SMCs' policy orientation to explain which factors can affect these two companies' reaction against state-linked information operations. We find that good governance indicators such as democracy are significant elements of SMCs' country-focus. This article also examines whether Meta and Twitter's attention to political regime characteristics is influenced by international political alignments. This research illuminates recent trends in SMCs' take-down operations and illuminating interplay between geopolitics and domestic regime characteristics. |
| title | Politics and Propaganda on Social Media: How Twitter and Meta Moderate State-Linked Information Operations |
| topic | Social and Information Networks |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.02095 |