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Network Manipulation

Network Manipulation

Data Skeptic · Kyle Polich

April 30, 202540m 58s

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Show Notes

In this episode we talk with Manita Pote, a PhD student at Indiana University Bloomington, specializing in online trust and safety, with a focus on detecting coordinated manipulation campaigns on social media.

Key insights include how coordinated reply attacks target influential figures like journalists and politicians, how machine learning models can detect these inauthentic campaigns using structural and behavioral features, and how deletion patterns reveal efforts to evade moderation or manipulate engagement metrics.

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Papers in focus Coordinated Reply Attacks in Influence Operations: Characterization and Detection ,2025 Manipulating Twitter through Deletions,2022