SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SOCIAL MEDIA AUTHENTICITY ANALYSIS AND COORDINATED INFLUENCE DETECTION

Abstract

This is a system for authenticity analysis of social media activity having flags that can represent an indicator that a social media account may be participating in a coordinated influence operation, and a computer system in communication with social media platforms. The computer system identifies conversation topics, searches for indicators that social media accounts are involved with conversation topics, determines sets of social media accounts related to the conversation topics, assigns one or more flags to social media accounts according to account attributes, determines if sets of social media accounts are attempting to exert influence on objects of influence within the conversation topics through statistical analysis of flag distributions, and provides subsets of social media accounts suspected of exerting coordinated influence. The system employs statistical outlier detection to identify anomalous objects of influence, enables detection of coordinated networks and distinguishes between authentic coordination and malicious manipulation using behavioral pattern analysis.

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