The document discusses research from the Truthy project at Indiana University on analyzing political communication and misinformation on social media. It presents several studies conducted between 2011-2012 on topics like partisan language usage, predicting political beliefs from social media activity, and identifying coordinated misinformation campaigns. The overarching goal of the Truthy project is to better understand the impacts and opportunities of digital tools on political discourse and democracy.
15. Please follow @username for an outstanding
progressive voice! #p2 #dems #prog #tcot
Couple Aborts Twin Boys for Being Wrong Gender ..
http://bit.ly/xyz #tcot #christian #teaparty #p2 #prolife
Content Injection
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16. DATE
FEBRUARY 2011
Far Left
Moderate
Left
Centrist
Moderate
Right
Far Right
#healthcare
#judaism
#hollywood
#2010elections
#capitalism
#security
#publicoption
#recession
#dreamact
#topprogs
#aarp
#citizensunited
#democratic
#banksters
#energy
#sarahpalin
#progressives
#stopbeck
#iraq
#women
#democrats
#social
#seniors
#dnc
#budgets
#political
#gopproud
#christian
#media
#nobel
#rangel
#waste
#saveamerica
#american
#gold
#repeal
#mexico
#terrorism
#gopleader
#palin12
#912project
#twisters
#gop2112
#israel
#foxnews
#mediabias
#constitution
#patriots
#rednov
#abortion
SOURCE
INDIANA UNIVERSITY
PARTISAN LANGUAGE
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17. PROJECT
DATE SOURCE
OCTOBER 2012 INDIANA UNIVERSITY
OCCUPY WALL STREET
STABLE POLITICS REVOLUTIONARY
Intrastate Interstate
wall, nyc, street, news, 99%, bank
don’t, media, peaceful, nypd
city, tonight, march, join, solidarity
day, square, please, park, now
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20. Knowledge
Discovery
$4 Billion Political Advertising Industry
Non-Obvious Behavioral Data
Popular Left Popular Right
feedproxy.google.com feedproxy.google.com
mediamatters.org hotair.com
politicalwind.com gop2112.com
youtube.com youtube.com
dailykos.com redstate.com
truthy-out.org firstthings.com
msnbc.msn.com americanthinker.com
harryreid.com google.com
www.google.com survivalstation.org
realclearpolitics.com newsbusters.org
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33. The Promise & Perils of
Digital Democracy
Alessandro Flammini
Filippo Menczer
Jacob Ratkiewicz
Michael Conover
Bruno Goncalves
Mark Meiss
Emilio Ferrara
Karissa McKelvey
Clayton Davis
Emily Metzgar
Hans Ibold
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