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Re:Massive networks of fake accounts found on Twitter by jashkenas on Friday January 27, 2017 @03:53PM (#13502568)
There are certainly a great many interesting angles ;)

For a neat paper that actually has some nice hard evidence about what government production of social posts can look like, check out Gary King and co. at Harvard's exploration of Zhanggong, China:

http://gking.harvard.edu/files/gking/files/50c.pdf

We summarized it here: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/20/business/international/ch...

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Re:Massive networks of fake accounts found on Twitter by eternalban on Saturday January 28, 2017 @12:08AM (#13505033)
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1402.5644v1.pdf

"China". To think I used to actually pay for your paper in my errant youth! :)

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