Toxicity in State Sponsored Information OperationsA large-scale analysis of 56 million X/Twitter posts from 42,405 state-linked influence operators across 18 countries showing that toxic content, though only 1.53% of posts, receives disproportionately high engagement and is strategically deployed by operations from countries such as Russia, Venezue
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10.1145/3720553.3746680
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979-8-4007-1534-1
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Toxicity in State Sponsored Information Operations
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Ashfaq Ali Shafin, Khandaker Mamun Ahmed
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A large-scale analysis of 56 million X/Twitter posts from 42,405 state-linked influence operators across 18 countries showing that toxic content, though only 1.53% of posts, receives disproportionately high engagement and is strategically deployed by operations from countries such as Russia, Venezue
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.10936
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2025-09-15
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HT '25: 36th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media, Chicago, IL, USA, September 15-19, 2025
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