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How Soft Propaganda Persuades

Comparative Political Studies, 2022
An influential body of scholarship argues that authoritarian regimes design “hard” propaganda that is intentionally heavy-handed in order to signal regime power. In this study, by contrast, we link the power of propaganda to the emotional power of “soft”
Daniel C. Mattingly, Elaine Yao
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Large Language Models for Propaganda Span Annotation

Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2023
The use of propagandistic techniques in online content has increased in recent years aiming to manipulate online audiences. Fine-grained propaganda detection and extraction of textual spans where propaganda techniques are used, are essential for more ...
Maram Hasanain, Fatema Ahmed, Firoj Alam
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The Ideology is Blowing in the Wind: Managing Orthodoxy and Popularity in China’s Propaganda

Political Communication, 2023
The concept of political propaganda includes a theoretical contradiction between orthodoxy and popularity of ideology, and by implication, a practical contradiction between repressing and mobilizing public discourse. Post-socialist China offers a curious
Clyde Yicheng Wang
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Digital Propaganda: The Power of Influencers

Journal of Democracy, 2022
:Attempts to manipulate public opinion using social media and emerging information communication technologies (ICTs) continue to proliferate internationally.
S. Woolley
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Detecting Propaganda Techniques in English News Articles using Pre-trained Transformers

International Conference on Information, Communications and Signal Processing, 2022
The rapid evolution of technology and the Internet has enabled massive data to reach many audiences. People search for news, provide opinions, and discuss decisions online.
Malak Abdullah   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

NLP Tool for Extracting Relevant Information from Criminal Reports or Fakes/Propaganda Content

International Conference on Computer Science and Information Technologies, 2022
The goal of paper is to develop a natural language processing system to extract relevant information from criminal reports or fake/propaganda. A detailed description of the developed system was made. The technical requirements were formed.
V. Vysotska   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Why It Matters What Autocrats Say: Assessing Competing Theories of Propaganda

Problems of Post-Communism, 2022
This article investigates two accounts of political propaganda in autocratic regimes. One argues that propaganda’s content does not matter substantively and that propaganda is mostly a signal of the regime’s overwhelming power over citizens.
Constantine Boussalis   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Identity propaganda: Racial narratives and disinformation

New Media & Society, 2021
This article develops the concept of “identity propaganda,” or narratives that strategically target and exploit identity-based differences in accord with pre-existing power structures to maintain hegemonic social orders.
M. Reddi, Rachel Kuo, Daniel Kreiss
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Misinformation, Disinformation, and Online Propaganda

Social Media and Democracy, 2020
Not long ago, the rise of social media inspired great optimism about its potential for flattening access to economic and political opportunity, enabling collective action, and facilitating new forms of expression.
A. Guess, Benjamin A. Lyons
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Cross-Platform State Propaganda: Russian Trolls on Twitter and YouTube during the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election

The International Journal of Press/Politics, 2020
This paper investigates online propaganda strategies of the Internet Research Agency (IRA)—Russian “trolls”—during the 2016 U.S. presidential election. We assess claims that the IRA sought either to (1) support Donald Trump or (2) sow discord among the U.
Yevgeniy Golovchenko   +4 more
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