CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2022
| Author | Tereza Bucharova |
|---|---|
| Title | Disinformation Spread and Targeting Politicians on Czech Twitter |
| Summary | Previous research on the use of fake Twitter accounts shows that right-wing trolls ap- pear more frequently than left-wing trolls. Also, right-wing politicians are more likely to benefit from troll activity. Trolls serve as amplifiers of political messages, they are also employed to intimidate other users, that includes activists, journalist, or politicians. While there is evidence that trolls operate on Czech Twitter, their behaviour had not been studied. This papers aims to analyse whether troll activity depends and the sen- timent of the targeting message on politician’s ideology. Data on Twitter troll activity towards Czech politicians were collected and analysed using statistical models. The results show right-wing trolls are more likely to target right-ting politicians. The sen- timent of the messages also increases the more the politician’s ideology to the right, however, the relationship between politician’s ideology and message sentiment is not significant. |
| Supervisor | Mariyana Angelova |
| Department | Political Science MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2022/bucharova_tereza.pdf |
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