AI to Detect 'Foreign-Linked Opinion Manipulation' in 110 Million News Comments
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AI developed by researchers from KAIST and Germany has detected over 24,000 suspicious comment accounts inciting domestic political conflict. These accounts exhibited a pattern of fueling social distrust by criticizing politicians from both the ruling and opposition parties equally, without leaning toward any particular camp. The research team hopes that this technology will be utilized as a tool to support expert decision-making.
Amidst intensifying conflict in the online public sphere during the election season, indications have been detected that approximately 24,000 accounts suspected of being linked to foreign entities have systematically intervened in public opinion. Rather than taking sides with any particular camp, they criticized both progressive and conservative politicians, thereby exacerbating social conflict
AI to detect 'foreign-linked opinion manipulation' in 110 million news comments
During election seasons or major national debates, online news comment sections often become heated spaces of conflict across gender, generational and political lines. For years, there have been persistent concerns that behind some of these conflicts may lie "foreign winds," or interventions by foreign actors seeking to manipulate public opinion and deepen social divisions.
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