TY - JOUR AU - Recuero, Raquel AU - Soares, Felipe AU - Vinhas, Otavio AU - Zago, Gabriela PY - 2020/10/05 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - DISINFORMATION CAMPAIGNS ON TWITTER DURING THE BRAZILIAN 2018 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION JF - AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research JA - SPIR VL - 2020 IS - 0 SE - Papers R DO - 10.5210/spir.v2020i0.11312 UR - https://spir.aoir.org/ojs/index.php/spir/article/view/11312 SP - AB - <p>This proposal focuses on discussing the results of two-year study about disinformation in political conversations on Twitter during the 2018 presidential campaign in Brazil. Based on a dataset of over 20 million tweets, we explore the research question: What are the key characteristics of the disinformation campaigns aimed to influence the Brazilian 2018 election through political conversations on Twitter? To discuss this question, we aligned our results with three key aspects of the disinformation campaigns: (a) content strategies; (b) legitimation strategies and (c) spread strategies.</p> ER -