Partial Mobilization: Tracking Multilingual Information Flows Amongst Russian Media Outlets and Telegram

arXiv:2301.10856v3 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: In response to disinformation and propaganda from Russian online media following the invasion of Ukraine, Russian media outlets such as Russia Today and Sputnik News were banned throughout Europe. To maintain viewership, many of these Russian outlets began to heavily promote their content on messaging services like Telegram. In this work, we study how 16 Russian media outlets interacted with and utilized 732 Telegram channels throughout 2022. Leveraging the foundational model MPNet, DP-means clustering, and …

abstract arxiv began cs.cl cs.cy cs.lg cs.si disinformation europe information media multilingual online media promote propaganda russia telegram tracking type ukraine