Foreign Interference in the 2020 Election: Tools for Detecting Online Election Interference
William Marcellino, Christian Johnson, Marek N. Posard, Todd C. Helmus · RAND Corporation eBooks · 2020
This report, the second in a series on information efforts by foreign actors, describes what appears to be an instance of election interference on Twitter using trolls (fake personas spreading a variety of hyperpartisan themes) and superconnectors (highly networked accounts that can spread messages effectively and quickly). The report describes the methods used to identify the questionable accounts and lists recommendations for response.