An Avalanche of Images on Telegram Preceded Russia's Full-Scale Invasion of Ukraine
CoRR(2024)
摘要
Governments use propaganda, including through visual content – or
Politically Salient Image Patterns (PSIP) – on social media, to influence and
manipulate public opinion. In the present work, we collected Telegram
post-history of from 989 Russian milbloggers to better understand the social
and political narratives that circulated online in the months surrounding
Russia's 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Overall, we found an 8,925
increase (p<0.001) in the number of posts and a 5,352
the number of images posted by these accounts in the two weeks prior to the
invasion. We also observed a similar increase in the number and intensity of
politically salient manipulated images that circulated on Telegram. Although
this paper does not evaluate malice or coordination in these activities, we do
conclude with a call for further research into the role that manipulated visual
media has in the lead-up to instability events and armed conflict.
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